By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/06/2026If "epistemic humility" means anything, it means acknowledging that no amount of "requirements gathering" can capture the needs of people totally unlike yourself as faithfully as those users can capture their own needs. 16/ 1311
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/06/2026Giving people the tools to produce their own software is always going to make tools - vernacular, idiosyncratic, homespun - that are more suited to their own hands and minds than anything a technologist working on their behalf could make. 17/ 1211
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/06/2026The ancient dictum of "nothing about us without us" - born in 16th century Poland and taken up by the modern disability rights movement - asserts the right of people to control their own living conditions, and also the unique capacity of people to understand their own needs. 18/ 2403
