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Best book I read this year, which is a non-trivial statement since it’s December and I think I’ll finish just one more book this month. Thing Knowledge by Davis Baird. Also very relevant to protocols. I’m now convinced protocols are a best understood as a kind of behavioral envelope around things that bear knowledge in the sense of Baird’s notion of material epistemology. Protocols complete incomplete,y encapsulated things that cannot be entirely black-boxed or made fully foolproof. https://www.ucpress.edu/books/thing-knowledge/hardcover

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