Perpetual Beta Series — 10th Anniversary Ed.

actionable insights on learning and working in a digitally networked society

Covers of the first four books in the perpetual beta series
Life in Perpetual Beta: Original Series

The perpetual beta series began in 2014 as four standalone digital volumes, following my first ten years of blogging. The changing nature of work and our evolving perspectives on learning and knowledge were the core themes. These were combined into a single volume in 2018 which was edited and updated in 2020, & 2022.

This latest volume (PDF) for 2024 celebrates the tenth anniversary of the series and twenty years of blogging at jarche.com. It is composed of mostly new material. The more comprehensive previous edition — Perpetual Beta 2022 — is still available as a 175 page PDF for $20.

As we continue with one more year of a global pandemic we are seeing the forces of disease, the climate catastrophe, and political turmoil combine and batter our markets and institutions. It will only be as a global networked society that we will be able to address these forces.

Welcome to ten years of life in perpetual beta, where work is learning, and learning is the work.

Table of Contents for perpetual beta 20242020 - when the 21st century began Agile Sensemaking Misinformation Manual Sensemaking Automation Understanding Media Autotuning Capitalism Wholesale Scraping Stepping Aside Leadership in Chaos Pandemic Leadership Leading in Complexity Leading by Example Broken Systems Communities Alone Together At the Speed of Trust Covenants
Table of Contents: Perpetual Beta 2024

Purchase Perpetual Beta 2024 for — $(CA)25 [approx. USD 19 or €17]

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Perpetual Beta 2024 10th Anniversary Edition Harold Jarche "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." —Frank Herbert (1965) DuneImage: Cape Jourimain Lighthouse, New Brunswick, Canada, looking toward Prince Edward Island with the Confederation Bridge in the background.

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