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re:mechanization - One of Taiichi Ohno's huge triumphs in industrial engineering at Toyota was specifically against mechanizing humans, so against the Taylorist view of human beings as unthinking machines, and for designing systems around human individuality and innovation. Cybernetics gives us a framework for why this was a productive move, and this is the kind of things that my reading group looked at. I'm happy to pass along pretty niche lit if this is of interest.