By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/04/2026But even though "IP" is treated as a firm's most important asset, it's actually far less important than another intangible: *process knowledge*. 10/ 1183
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/04/2026I first came across the concept of "process knowledge" in Dan Wang's *Breakneck*, a very good book about the rise and rise of Chinese manufacturing, industrialization and global dominance: danwang.co/breakneck/ 11/danwang.coBreakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future | Dan WangAnnouncing my book; whalelore; Austrian Catholicism; the legacy of Moses and Rickover; Yunnan; influencer culture; how historians work. 1152
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/04/2026I picked up *Breakneck* after reading writers whom I admire who singled out the book's treatment of process knowledge for praise and further discussion. The political scientist Henry Farrell called process knowledge the key to economic development: www.programmablemutter.com/p/process-kn... 12/programmablemutter.comProcess knowledge is crucial to economic developmentThe message of Dan Wang's new book. 1110
