Compliació que inclou: Diary : how to improve the world (you will only make matters worse) 1965; Diary : how to improve the world (you will only make matters worse) continued 1966; Diary : how to improve the world (you will only make matters worse) continued 1967; Diary : how to improve the world (you will only make matters worse) continued 1968 (revised); Diary : how to improve the world (you will only make matters worse) continued 1969 (Part V); Diary : how to improve the world (you will only make matters worse) continued 1970-71; Diary : how to improve the world (you will only make matters worse) continued 1971-72; Diary : how to improve the world (you will only make matters worse) continued 1973-1982. -- A la pàgina web de l'editor: "A repository of observations, anecdotes, proclivities, obsessions, jokes and koan-like stories, Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) registers John Cage’s assessment of the times in which he lived as well as his often uncanny portents about the world we live in now. With a great sense of play as well as purpose, Cage traverses vast territory, from the domestic minutiae of everyday life to ideas about how to feed the world". -- Inclou textos de Richard Kraft, Joe Biel i David W. Rose.