By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026That's like asking "Do you use keyboard shortcuts, or do you mouse over the Word ribbon and click on the little scissors icon when you want to cut some text?" The *actual, finished document* is right in front of you. Is it a good document? Are those good words? 3871
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026Why are you concerning yourself with the writer's pencil-sharpening technique? There's precedent for this: indeed, it's the very origin of management consulting. 1822
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026The first management consultants were Taylorists; con artists who charged bosses vast sums of money to stand over workers with stopwatches, timing each step of their jobs to the instant in order to produce a mandatory choreography of "the best way" to do the job: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scienti...en.wikipedia.orgScientific management - Wikipedia 29915