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A working library is a blog about work, reading & technology by Mandy Brown

To serve and guide

On The Middle Passage

The sweet and the swill

On The Sea and Summer

Accountability sinks

On The Unaccountability Machine & Just Culture

A peasant woodland

Playing in the dirt.

What are we making together?

On The Ordinal Society

A battle with the gods

On The Courage to Create & Circe

The unconscious machine

On The Courage to Create & The Burnout Society

Coming home

Into the gap.

What we do not know

On Always Coming Home

Who we wish to become

On Everything for Everyone

Nostalgia and grief

On Lifehouse

Grow down

On The Soul’s Code

Knowledge workers

On Cubed

“Laborsaving”

On Cubed

Common future

On The Real World of Technology

Knowledge of feelings

Drive your feelings home.

Against optimization

On How Infrastructure Works

Gather your gossips

Talk is power.

Undiscovered

On Against the Grain & The Steerswoman

Move at the speed of trust

On Being Wrong & Emergent Strategy

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