For a few minutes after reading this I was worried about smartgit losing its way. But it seems they actually still offer perpetual single-payment licenses, where you purchase a few years of updates, usable after update period ends.
> It puts a name to a considerate consensus-based way to approach change
When reading about nemawashi I immediately thought about its usage in software refactoring.
This is something you often intuitively do when making bigger refactors.
Lay the foundations before actually doing it.
Affected code parts and stakeholders should not be surprised by one big change. Instead they should be consulted before hand, building consensus, modify the planned big refactor itself and preparing the individual parts for it by small changes. Otherwise you will encounter a lot of friction, introduce bugs, etc.
I recommend reading George Campbell's "The Hero with a Thousand Faces".
This is about comparative mythology, aka comparative story telling. He works out the core elements and common concepts that appear in story telling across cultures and time.
It opened my mind to be able to understand all kinds of storys on another level.
In school I always hated literature. It was like they tried to make me do something I just didn't understand at all. Literature was just random stories for me and all interpretation and attribution of meaning was fruitless and had I to just guess/fake it. Yea maybe my education was just bad who knows, doesn't matter now.
The Hero with a Thousand Faces changed that. Now I was open for all the literature and saw everything in a new light. I could recognize common concepts in stories and human life in general.
It also opened my mind for later Alan Watts reads on the interconnected-ness of everything.
Someone already recommended "The Way of Zen" by Alan Watts, which I can only approve of! I'd also like to add "The Book - On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are", also by Watts.
Pick-up community got me into personality development. IIRC it is often called "inner game" there, in opposition to the "outer game", which is how to approach women, talk etc.
The inner game aspect was very interesting and can be used as a starting point for any personal spiritual development.
But you certainly have to look over the edges of the pick-up community.