What Cory Doctorow thinks about humility
Science fiction novelist, journalist and activist, a special adviser to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the author of the daily link blog Pluralistic. He coined the word "enshittification" in 2022 to name the way platforms decay, and it was the American Dialect Society's word of the year for 2023.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Cory Doctorow has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingBeing the domain expert on your own needs doesn't make you the expert on how to address those needs.
Their wordswhile you are the domain expert on your needs, that doesn't mean you're the domain expert on how to address those needs.
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