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mandy brown

@aworkinglibrary.com

Thinking about reading, work, and technology. Helping people do their best work despite the ravages of capitalism at everythingchanges.us. Posting from https://aworkinglibrary.com/thinking/. I log in about once a week.

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mandy brown@aworkinglibrary.com · last wk.

Erin is the best person to do this kind of work. Not only because she has the aptitude and care, but also because she is in the right place to both observe the clouds and report back to those of us on the ground. Everyone should throw money at her! https://www.wrecka.ge/launching-a-cloud-atlas/

Launching a Cloud Atlas

The right questions to arrive with—and the right structure for what comes out of the interviews—are not completely obvious. So I’ve been spending some time thinking about clouds.

wrecka.ge

mandy brown@aworkinglibrary.com · 2w ago

This will be the 7th cohort, and I’ve seen over and over that a practice of writing and noticing in community—bolstered by liberatory philosophies of abolition, feminism, and utopian thinking—is immensely powerful for training that imagination, and then showing the way forward, step by step by step.

This experience acted on me in subtle and surprising ways. Beyond providing practical tools and ways of thinking about my relationship to work and personal transformation, the work/shop created a container to practice self expression among curious, fellow travelers. I highly recommend this experience for anyone who has a hunch that they have more to give themselves and this world. —AndrewMy fellows seemed to bring their kindest, brightest, most thoughtful selves to the work/ shop. What I took away: a renewed sense of possibility for myself—in connection with others. As if a spark of something had been generated by and passed between the people who stepped out of the habitual to share, reflect, and grow from a wise deep place in themselves. This was by mandy's design, and it was a gift to be there. —Havi HoffmanWhat a refreshing balm of a work/shop this was! Rather than rehashing the same old advice about networking and career exploration, mandy took us a step back and encouraged us to generate material from our own imaginations. It was a welcome reminder that job exploration doesn't have to feel like marching through a to-do list. Rather, it can be an invitation to be playful and exploratory and to imagine your way into something new. —Jenae CohnTo say that this work/shop changed the way I approach life is not an exaggeration. mandy fosters a space and curates insights and tools to facilitate perspective-altering and mind-expanding work. I've turned to what I learned in this work/shop to grapple with big life questions, totally unrelated to work. If you're feeling called to this work/shop, I can't recommend it enough. (Ask my friends! I've already told so many people.) —Kaela
mandy brown@aworkinglibrary.com · 2w ago

In my personal headcanon, Le Guin and Franklin are the *Ursulae*, and they are right at this moment resting in the shade of a great big tree, drinking tea (Franklin) and whiskey (UKLG) and talking about the end of the patriarchy—which for them has already happened.

Daniël van der Winden@daniel.pizza · last mo.

I've been reading A Working Library since, I think, 2010. mandy's writing is always thoughtful, always probing. It's a luxury to have all of those years of writing, which is of such high quality, be available online—for free. Thank you, mandy!

mandy brown@aworkinglibrary.com · last mo.

This month marks *18 years* of A Working Library. I will have more to say about what it means to blog for this long, and what I'm building towards, but for now I just want to thank everyone for reading. aworkinglibrary.com/writing/umyazu

Martin McClellan@hellbox.bsky.social · last mo.

Consistently the most meaningful and grounding read on the internet, to me. Mandy's work reminds me of the best parts of the early promise of the internet made into a beating, living, and modern textual body. Here's to eighteen more years.

mandy brown@aworkinglibrary.com · last mo.

This month marks *18 years* of A Working Library. I will have more to say about what it means to blog for this long, and what I'm building towards, but for now I just want to thank everyone for reading. aworkinglibrary.com/writing/umyazu

mandy brown@aworkinglibrary.com · last mo.

I really think the only reasonable response to the increasing prevalence of 996 in the tech world is to organize for a 20 hour workweek with no reduction in pay. They are trying to move the Overton window for working hours; let’s drag it the fuck back.