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Autonomy
An annotated collection of 2 books & essays on autonomy, spanning 1973 to 2023. Featuring works by Ivan Illich, Jorge Manrubia — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
Tools for Conviviality
Ivan Illich, 1973 · Harper & Row
Illich's argument is that tools — broadly defined, including institutions, technologies and systems — should extend human autonomy rather than reduce it, and that most industrial tools have crossed the threshold where th…
The Radiating Programmer
Jorge Manrubia, 2023 · 37signals — Dev
Manrubia describes a type of engineer who works in the open — sharing context as they go, not in reports but in the texture of how they think aloud. The essay is short and deceptively simple: it names a behaviour that sm…