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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/04/2026

I 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.co

Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future | Dan Wang

Announcing my book; whalelore; Austrian Catholicism; the legacy of Moses and Rickover; Yunnan; influencer culture; how historians work.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/04/2026

I 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.com

Process knowledge is crucial to economic development

The message of Dan Wang's new book.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/04/2026

While Dan Davies - a superb writer about organizations and their management - used England's Brompton Bicycles to make the abstract concept of process knowledge very concrete indeed: backofmind.substack.com/p/the-brompt... 13/

backofmind.substack.com

the brompton-ness of it all

process knowledge and such like

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