The wider library

Every entry's Block 7 in one place: 74 works across 22 entries, 39 of them with a link out. This is a list of addresses, not a collection — nothing here is hosted, mirrored or excerpted, and that is a rule rather than an oversight.

Each entry's own Block 7 is the authoritative version; this page is the union, generated from the same register on every build. An anchor work is not repeated here — it is at the top of its entry, in Block 1.

Bret Victor traced

• The Future of Programming — the 1973 costume talk — a history of ideas that were abandoned rather than disproved ↗
• Media for Thinking the Unthinkable — why the representations we use bound the thoughts we can have ↗
• Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction — the interactive essay about moving between the concrete and the general — arguably the most directly applicable to graph work ↗
• Stop Drawing Dead Fish — on tools that produce artefacts versus tools that produce behaviour ↗
• Drawing Dynamic Visualizations — direct manipulation applied to data visualisation itself ↗
• The Humane Representation of Thought — the widest version of the argument: thinking with the whole body, not a rectangle ↗
• Dynamicland — the research programme the ideas went into ↗

Simon Wardley & Wardley Maps traced

• Wardley Maps (the online book) — the whole method, published free by its author ↗
• Learn Wardley Mapping — the community's structured entry point ↗

Tim Berners-Lee & the Semantic Web traced

• Weaving the Web (1999) — Berners-Lee's own account of the design decisions, including the ones he regrets ↗
• Linked Data — Design Issues (2006) — the four rules, and the most compact statement of the programme ↗
• The Solid Protocol — the personal-data-store programme; the direct comparator to vaults ↗
• RDF 1.1 Concepts — the model the edge-first critique is aimed at — worth reading before agreeing with the critique ↗

OWASP & the security community traced

• OWASP Summits — the working-session format this entry is really about ↗
• The OWASP Top Ten — the artefact everyone knows, and a case study in what happens when a working document becomes a compliance requirement ↗
• David Rice — Geekonomics — the wider-library item belonging to the nested keynote entry ↗

Flow, and coding in the zone traced

• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (1990) — the anchor; the chapter on work is the one to read first
• Beyond Boredom and Anxiety (1975) — the earlier, more empirical statement of the same research
• Peopleware — DeMarco & Lister — not in the corpus, and the obvious companion: the same argument about interruption made about offices rather than tools

Niklas Luhmann & the Zettelkasten traced

• Communicating with Slip Boxes (1981) — Luhmann on his own method, in the only piece where he really explains it ↗
• The Luhmann Archive — the actual slip-box, digitised — 90,000 notes, browsable ↗
• Social Systems (1984) — the theory the slip-box was built to produce, and a fair warning about what emergent structure reads like from outside

Anders Ericsson & deliberate practice traced

• The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance (1993) — the primary source, and the paper the ten-thousand-hours number was extracted from ↗
• Peak (2016) — Ericsson's own correction of the popularisation, written because the summary would not stop spreading

Karl Popper & falsifiability traced

• The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1959) — the anchor; chapter one carries the whole demarcation argument
• Conjectures and Refutations (1963) — the more readable statement, and the one most people should start with
• The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945) — the political half — same method, applied to institutions rather than theories

Linus Torvalds traced

• Git — the tool, and its own history — worth reading how fast it was written and why ↗
• Just for Fun (2001) — Torvalds's own account, and a useful corrective to the mythology
• The 2007 Google Tech Talk on Git — the design argument in his own words, including the parts that have aged badly ↗

Bruce Schneier traced

• Schneier on Security (the blog) — thirty years of the argument being made in public, continuously ↗
• Secrets and Lies (2000) — the book where the shift from cryptography to systems happens in the open
• Liars and Outliers (2012) — the furthest version of the incentives argument — security as a problem of societal trust
• Applied Cryptography (1996) — the earlier work, and useful mostly as the thing the later work moved away from

Design, with a capital D traced

• The 1996 Wired interview — a different and broader Jobs formulation — design as the fundamental soul of a made thing — and useful beside the anchor rather than instead of it ↗
• Objectified (2009) — Ive and Rams in the same documentary — the clearest available statement of the lineage this entry nests
• Insanely Simple — Ken Segall — the simplicity-as-subtraction argument, from someone who was in the room

The wider design canon traced

• Dieter Rams — Ten Principles for Good Design — the shortest useful design document ever written; all ten transfer to software ↗
• Massimo Vignelli — The Vignelli Canon — published free by its author; the discipline of constraint, stated as rules ↗
• Don Norman — The Design of Everyday Things — affordance and signifiers; the one book on this list an engineer should read first
• Steve Krug — Don't Make Me Think — about web usability, and really about documentation
• Josef Müller-Brockmann — Grid Systems in Graphic Design — why a consistent structure is what makes an exception readable
• Jan Tschichold — The New Typography — and his later repudiation of it, which is the more useful half
• Alan Cooper — About Face — interaction design as a discipline separate from engineering
• Charles & Ray Eames, Alvar Aalto — the material half of the tradition — constraint as a source of form rather than a limit on it

Mihály Csíkszentmihályi traced

• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (1990) — the anchor. Chapter three is where the criteria are set out
• Beyond Boredom and Anxiety (1975) — the earlier empirical work, with the experience-sampling method that produced the data
• Creativity (1996) — the same method applied to people doing original work over decades

Neil Peart & Rush stated

• Rush — the discography — listed, linked and not rehosted; the anchor record is still to be chosen ↗
• Neil Peart — Ghost Rider (2002) — his own prose. If the craftsman-lyricist hypothesis holds, this is where it would be visible in his own voice
• Neil Peart — The Masked Rider (1996) — the earlier travel writing

Kevin Kelly's books stated

• What Technology Wants (2010) — the technium argument in full
• The Inevitable (2016) — twelve forces, framed as things already in motion
• 1,000 True Fans (2008) — the essay, published free — a different argument entirely, about who has to like your work ↗
• Out of Control (1994) — the earliest and strangest of them; decentralised systems before it was a genre

Simon Sinek — the golden circle stated

• How great leaders inspire action (TED, 2009) — the talk; eighteen minutes and the whole idea ↗
• Start With Why (2009) — the book-length version
• The Infinite Game (2019) — the later argument, and closer to what a long-lived open-source project actually faces

The Cathedral and the Bazaar stated

• The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1997) — the essay, free at its original address ↗
• Homesteading the Noosphere (1998) — the follow-up on ownership and reputation in open-source projects ↗
• Two Bits — Christopher Kelty (2008) — not by Raymond, and the best critical account of what the essay got right and wrong ↗

David Rice — “Upon the Threshold of Opportunity” stated

• Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software (2007) — Rice's book, and the fullest version of the argument the keynote presumably made ↗
• OWASP AppSec conference archives — where the recording should be, and where the search starts ↗

Diverse and distributed teams stated

• Team Topologies — Skelton & Pais — the nearest published framework, and itself a discovered entry in this register

Christopher Alexander discovered

• A Pattern Language (1977) — the anchor; 253 patterns, and the structure between them is the point
• The Timeless Way of Building (1979) — the argument the patterns were derived from, and the better book
• Notes on the Synthesis of Form (1964) — the early, formal work — and the one Alexander later partly repudiated
• Patterns of Software — Richard Gabriel (1996) — the most serious attempt to say what software actually took from Alexander, and what it dropped ↗

Team Topologies & Cynefin discovered

• Team Topologies — Skelton & Pais (2019) — four team types and three interaction modes ↗
• Cynefin — Dave Snowden — the sensemaking framework; the clear/complicated/complex/chaotic distinction is the transferable part ↗
• A Leader's Framework for Decision Making (HBR, 2007) — Snowden and Boone's most-read statement of it ↗

Vannevar Bush & the memex discovered

• As We May Think (1945) — the anchor, free at The Atlantic; the trails section is the part that matters ↗
• Doug Engelbart — Augmenting Human Intellect (1962) — the report that took Bush seriously and built toward it ↗
• Ted Nelson — Literary Machines (1981) — the maximalist descendant; transclusion is the idea the web dropped