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Tim Minshall
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Dr John C Taylor Professor of Innovation, Head of the Institute for Manufacturing and Fellow of Churchill College, University of Cambridge. Author of ‘Your Life is Manufactured’ https://timminshall.com
#engineering #manufacturing #innovation .. more

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Tim Minshall @timminshall.bsky.social · 10d
Thanks @nocto.social.lol.ap.brid.gy - it certainly was interesting timing … and we definitely remain in interesting times for manufacturing
nocto.social.lol.ap.brid.gy Kirsty Darbyshire @nocto.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 13d
And in April-ish I read _Your Life is Manufactured_ by Tim Minshall but I've only just noticed I didn't post a review. It was interesting in itself, but reading it at the time the US tariff chaos was at it's most haywire was definitely enlightening. It's always […]

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Hardback copy of Your Life is Manufactured sitting on a table with a bit of christmas table runner visible underneath it. The book is subtitled "How we make things, why it matters, and how we can do it better".

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Kirsty Darbyshire @nocto.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 13d
And in April-ish I read _Your Life is Manufactured_ by Tim Minshall but I've only just noticed I didn't post a review. It was interesting in itself, but reading it at the time the US tariff chaos was at it's most haywire was definitely enlightening. It's always […]

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Hardback copy of Your Life is Manufactured sitting on a table with a bit of christmas table runner visible underneath it. The book is subtitled "How we make things, why it matters, and how we can do it better".

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Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · 20d
Books that changed the way I look at the world that I've read this year :

Your Life is Manufactured @timminshall.bsky.social

Less is More @jasonhickel.bsky.social

Entangled Life -Merlin Sheldrake

What the wild sea can be -Helen Scales

Island -Aldous Huxley

No Fair Maidens -Kim Willis

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 22d
My main pick for summer reading is Tim Minshall’s Your Life is Manufactured, particularly for those economists who like to promote the fantasy world of a ‘services-based’ economy www.innovationaus.com/relax-your-2... @timminshall.bsky.social
Relax! Your 2025 ultimate guide to Summer Reading has arrived!
It will surprise absolutely no-one that the common themes among this year’s Summer Reading recommendations are artificial intelligence and geopolitical risk, with a sprinkling of re-industrialisation....
www.innovationaus.com

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Tim Minshall @timminshall.bsky.social · Dec 7
#autonomousdriving #AI #innovation #cambridge

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Can Wayve make London a self-driving city?
Can Wayve make London a self-driving city?
John Thornhill takes an autonomous spin through the city’s tangled streets with the British start-up’s chief Alex Kendall
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Tim Minshall @timminshall.bsky.social · Dec 6
Thanks Heffers Bookshop for putting ‘Your Life is Manufactured’ in a giftbox … and in the shop window!

#books #Christmas2025 #giftideas #cambridge

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Tim Minshall @timminshall.bsky.social · Dec 3
Thank you, @suelibrarian.bsky.social! I’m so glad you enjoyed it.

#booksky #books #nonfiction #manufacturing #christmas

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suelibrarian.bsky.social Sue Librarian Ph.D. @suelibrarian.bsky.social · Dec 3
"I didn't think that lettuce could be classed as a manufactured product...but the picture...is way more involved than I had anticipated."
---How Things Are Made, @timminshall.bsky.social
Very well-written and utterly fascinating! #BookSky Bookshop.org
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Sue Librarian Ph.D. @suelibrarian.bsky.social · Dec 3
"I didn't think that lettuce could be classed as a manufactured product...but the picture...is way more involved than I had anticipated."
---How Things Are Made, @timminshall.bsky.social
Very well-written and utterly fascinating! #BookSky Bookshop.org
Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.
Bookshop.org

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Tim Minshall @timminshall.bsky.social · Nov 29
Is China winning the innovation race?

Is China winning the innovation race? via @FT

Well worth a read, IMHO.

#manufacturing #innovation #china

on.ft.com/4rmPe7P
Is China winning the innovation race?
Once the world’s factory, Beijing’s relentless focus on R&D means the country has become the world’s laboratory
on.ft.com

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Internet Archive @archive.org · Nov 17
From @cnn.com: Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are being saved www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...
Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are being saved | CNN Business
The Internet Archive has been saving web history for nearly 30 years. CNN’s Hadas Gold goes inside its headquarters to see how the archive is innovating for the AI age and protecting itself from both ...
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Tim Minshall @timminshall.bsky.social · Nov 16
“The greatest books of 2025” - that’s quite a claim … but I am delighted that “Your Life is Manufactured” is on the list!

#manufacturing #bookrecommendations

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www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/8174406...
The greatest books of 2025
Our critics review hundreds of books a year. Here are their favourites, from fiction and crime to memoir and history
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Harriett Gilbert @harriettsg.bsky.social · Nov 10
A comedy about radical Islam (seriously); our manufactured world; a motherhood mystery: an eclectic selection of book suggestions from @drjuliashaw.bsky.social Hayaatun Sillem & me on today’s A Good Read, 3pm on BBC Radio 4; online thereafter @nussaibah.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Julia Shaw and Hayaatun Sillem
Psychologist Julia Shaw and engineer Hayaatun Sillem discuss favourite books with Harriett
www.bbc.co.uk

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United Agents @unitedagents.bsky.social · Nov 10
Today at 3pm, Hayaatun Sillem joins BBC Radio 4’s A Good Read to discuss Tim Minshall (@timminshall.bsky.social)’s YOUR LIFE IS MANUFACTURED.

🎧 Listen live or catch up here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Julia Shaw and Hayaatun Sillem
Psychologist Julia Shaw and engineer Hayaatun Sillem discuss favourite books with Harriett
www.bbc.co.uk

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