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- Source · Appearances · Skill · Seed idea'Improving ratings': audit in the British University systemThe paper on university audit that contains the sentence usually quoted as Goodhart's law.
- Source · Knowing · Seed ideaApologyPlato's account of the speech Socrates gave at his trial in 399 BCE, including his explanation of what his reputation for wisdom actually consists of.
- Source · Knowing · Seed ideaPhilosophical InvestigationsThe posthumous work in which meaning is located in use within a practice, and in which no rule can guarantee its own application.
- Source · Appearances · Knowing · Seed ideaSeeing Like a StateA study of what centralized schemes must simplify away in order to administer a place, and of the local knowledge that goes with it.
- Source · Tools · Appearances · Seed ideaTechnopolyPostman's argument that every technology carries a bias toward some uses and away from others, and that a culture can lose the vocabulary to notice.
- Source · Skill · Meaning · Seed ideaThe Burnout SocietyA short book arguing that the society of prohibition has become a society of achievement, whose subject exhausts itself voluntarily.
- Source · Skill · Appearances · Seed ideaThe Human ConditionArendt's distinction between labor, work and action, and her account of what a world of durable things is for.
- Source · Knowing · Seed ideaThe Logic of Scientific DiscoveryPopper's statement of falsifiability: a theory belongs to empirical science only if some observation could contradict it.
- Source · Tools · Meaning · Seed ideaThe Question Concerning TechnologyThe 1954 essay arguing that the essence of technology is nothing technological, but a way of revealing that sets everything up as a resource on call.
- Source · Skill · Knowing · Seed ideaThe Reflective PractitionerA study of how skilled professionals handle cases their training did not cover, by reflecting inside the action rather than before it.
- Source · Appearances · Seed ideaThe Society of the SpectacleGuy Debord's 1967 book arguing that modern social life is increasingly displaced by its own representation.
- Source · Knowing · Seed ideaThe Structure of Scientific RevolutionsThe book that described science as long periods of puzzle-solving inside an unquestioned framework, broken by crises in which the framework itself changes.
- Source · Knowing · Skill · Seed ideaThe Tacit DimensionThree lectures built on one sentence: we can know more than we can tell.
- Source · Tools · Appearances · Seed ideaTools for ConvivialityIllich's account of the two watersheds a tool crosses: the point where it starts to help, and the point where it takes over the ability it was helping.
- Source · Skill · Tools · Seed ideaWhy Is Everyone in Tech So Sad?An article examining low morale among technology and knowledge workers, published in Noema Magazine.