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- Shifting baselines and the second watershed
- Before the second watershed
- Nemesis, the goddess of limits
- Six ways of making coffee: which is best?
- Nominate a WordPress plugin, best or worst
- Why more makes less
- Elinor Ostrom and the open source commons
- Judge a tool by what it does
- Tools or systems?
- Public interest research and counterfoil research
- Carl Hedman, 1934–2026
- Holding, tipping, lost
- Ellul, Charbonneau, and Illich
- What would Ivan Illich make of large language models?
- What is “counterfoil research?”
- Limits are a design brief
- How many people can a tool serve?
- A group is its own worst enemy
- Small is beautiful, fifty years on
- The gift is always being given
- No mother tongue
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