"How Big Is Your Fishbowl?" This book lightly touches all the pieces in these models. This is the best place to start. I wrote this book in response to feedback I had from friends who read preview versions of Coping Styles and Growth Rings.
"Coping Styles: Dealing with Life on Life's Terms" This book explains coping styles and helping methods in more detail than the Fishbowl story. This work, however, is only focused on two-dimensions in the three-dimensional model.
"Growth Rings: How We Get Connected" This book describes my exploration of developmental psychology as a social tool. Developmental psychology is the third dimension. Growth Rings and Coping Styles, when put together, describe all three-dimensions in my thinking model.
I am also planning a follow up book in which I will explain that society is like a pool of water. Our actions disturb the pool. Ripples of hostility take generations to quiesce. Ripples of love generate synergistic responses that multiple.
In that book I also need to explain the idea that knowledge is layered. I have personal knowledge. Together, you and I share knowledge. Beyond that there is knowledge held by our society which neither you nor I hold in our minds. I think I first encountered this thought through Ray Bradbury’s short story which became the novel Fahrenheit 451. In that story individuals each memorized one specific book so that their community became a library.
Vygotsky had already expressed this concept years earlier, but we had to get through the cold war before Vygotsky’s works could reach the USA. Ridley has recently touched on a similar thought and linked it to economics. For me, the concept became tangible when I worked with clustered databases, load balanced web servers and virtualized computing environments. Those technologies gave us virtual access to information detached from the physical presence of the underlying data.
I adopted this philosophy when I created my first web site. I have personal knowledge and I had knowledge that I was willing to share. I had previously held my knowledge more tightly because so much of what I have created has been stolen. And then I had a breakthrough. I finally realized that knowledge belongs to society. I am just one cell in the social body. I am expendable. Society will continue long after I am gone. So now I push my thoughts onto the internet expecting them to be stolen.
An idea that I hold has little value to society. An idea that travels is an idea that others find valuable. So I plan to divide my work. I will write books to publish and hope that I can buy food and pay my rent by selling those books. And I will do research which I will freely share hoping that what I write will be worthy enough to escape my grasp and enter into our social knowledge.
My goal is to eventually see Coping Styles and Growth Rings published as a combined book for those who want to understand Model 5-B. My goal is to eventually publish a collection of short works like Fishbowl which, taken together, will explain Model 5-B in a format that is accessible to everyone.