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

The Manhattan Project

On Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Reciprocal possession

On The Companion Species Manifesto

Follow the links

Hyperlinks are great, actually.

Hypertext for all

What is hypertext for?

The whole of work

The competitive advantage of the de-industrialized workplace.

Without anyone’s consent

On The Real World of Technology

Prescriptive technologies

On The Real World of Technology

Denial

On The New Jim Crow

Five years

On The New Jim Crow

Made by human beings

On The People’s Platform

Kool-Aid

On being a woman in tech.

Hypertext as an agent of change

A talk presented at the 10th annual dConstruct conference in Brighton, England.

More data is always good

On The Boy Kings

Making remote teams work

Observations about what makes for a good remote culture, and why it’s likely here to stay.

Plunder

On How to Live

Though I don’t know

On How to Live

Why we write

On Madness, Rack, and Honey

Waste time

On Madness, Rack, and Honey

Star wars

On Merchants of Doubt

The illusion of nature

On The Once and Future World

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