“Fundamental Factors Underlying Recent Technological Innovation” by Don Lancaster 2006 begins:
“What are the fundamental underlying "secret" forces that are driving recent technological developments? How can you apply these fundamental factors to your own product designs? Or at the very least, allow you to become enough aware that you can avoid getting done in by them?”
I haven’t read this just yet, but was reminded of the Nostr community after reading A Lodging of Wayfaring Men by Paul A. Rosenberg, as suggested by @Max - and Lancaster, albeit of a more ‘what I can implement right now’ bent (RE his The Incredible Secret Money Machine book about operating a small tech services business), has a similar outsider vibe