Writers & Thinkers

The people whose work shapes Thistlebridge. Not a canon — a garden. Some planted deliberately, others self-seeded and welcome.

The Deep Roots

These writers provide the foundational framing:

• Ursula K. Le Guin — Seeds not solutions. The carrier bag. The thousand-year view.
• E.F. Schumacher — Small is beautiful. Economics as if people mattered.
• Ivan Illich — Conviviality. Tools that enhance vs. tools that replace.

The Understory

• Wendell Berry — The agrarian essays. Local knowledge. Placed people.
• Stewart Brand — Long-term thinking. Whole systems. Access to tools.
• Matthew Crawford — Shop class. Attention. The world beyond your head.

Contemporary Voices

• Vitalik Buterin — d/acc. Local-first. The integration problem.
• Robin Sloan — Home-cooked software. Specific tools for specific contexts.

Who’s missing? The garden grows by what we plant and what arrives on the wind.