The perfect non-technical book on decentralisation?

This morning on Mastodon I asked:

If you were looking to write the perfect non-technical book on decentralisation, what would you include?

There were some great replies and I’m not going to do justice to them all here, but I want to summarise below some responses that I hope to return.

Anarcho-syndicalism
Autonomy
Cash money
Coercion and control
The Commons
Conformancy
Consensus
Deprogramming hierarchical thinking
Economic networks
Email vs Gmail
Exploitation
Fandom
French Resistance
Hierarchy
Inequality
Integrity
Medical system
Microwork
Murmurations
Murray Bookchin
Networked agency
Online Course for Self-Organising Teams
Open 2020 videos
Patterns for Decentralised Organising
Platforming and deplatforming
Resilience
Security
Sewage networks
Shooting the Dog
Solar power
Suppression
Sysadmins
Trust
Wind power
Zines and tape culture

If I do get around to writing some or all of a book like this, I envisage it will have discrete, overlapping chapters like Anything You Want by Derek Sivers or 33 Myths of the System by Derek Allen. As a few people said, it’s probably best not to put ‘decentralisation’ in the title if it’s meant for a general audience.

My thanks to all who took the time to respond!

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