Mastodawn

“Nature seems, very oddly, to have provided us with an inner light by which to judge of the novelist’s integrity or disintegrity.” https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/what-books-are-for

What books are for

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

A Working Library

mandy brown Dec 11

“I am asking you to live in the presence of reality, an invigorating life.” https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/live-at-enmity-with-unreality

mandy brown Dec 3

RE: https://mstdn.social/@aworkinglibrary/115565520650592495

The winter sf work/shop has now SOLD OUT! What a privilege to gather with an amazing group of people and dream of better days. I'm SO looking forward to this.

And: I'm planning to offer the work/shop again in the spring, so get on the waitlist to be the first to know when applications open up again.

mandy brown Dec 3

Jim Nielsen Dec 3

📝 “Growth” is an interesting word. In the natural world, you tend to it. In the business world, you “hack” it, “engineer” it, and do everything you can to otherwise accelerate, manipulate, and manufacture it into existence.

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/grow-like-a-tree-not-a-cancer/

Grow, Like a Tree Not a Cancer

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

mandy brown Dec 2

“I didn’t enter this field and take this type of job only to *not do the job*.” https://gregg.io/the-only-winning-move

The only winning move is not to play – Gregg Bernstein

Let’s not debase ourselves as user researchers further

mandy brown Nov 28

jenny (phire)Nov 25

I read a lot of newsletters and whatever about the tech industry and finance and labour and it consistently annoys me that the majority of people writing about this loudly are dudes. recommend me your favourite tech/finance/work blogs and newsletters written by not dudes please!! assume I know none of the obvious ones, I’d rather get redundant recs than miss a good one

mandy brown Nov 25

“…do they not prove that education, the finest education in the world, does not teach people to hate force, but to use it?” https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/where-there-is-a-wall

Where there is a wall

“Are not force and possessiveness very closely connected with war?”

A Working Library

mandy brown Nov 24

RE: https://mstdn.social/@aworkinglibrary/115565520650592495

Last call for the winter sf work/shop! Applications are due by noon EST today.

mandy brown Nov 22

“Statements about the future aren’t predictions: they’re more like spells.” https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-line-and-the-stream/

The line and the stream. — ethanmarcotte.com

“Artificial intelligence is the future,” they tell me. The thing is, futures are tricky.

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mandy brown Nov 20

Part of changing the way we work is changing the way we contribute to each other's well being, and I see this kind of pricing model as a core component of that. If you're curious, I wrote about why I think it's important to talk about money in contexts like these: https://everythingchanges.us/blog/all-on-the-table/

All on the table | everything changes

Real talk about money and our collective future.

everything changes

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