Daily Archives: 2020-10-21

Article note: This is an interesting piece, and it doesn't go in any of the directions I expected. I'm not sure what to take from it, but it's not the dumb entrepreneurial faux-libertarianism the title makes me suspicious of; it argues for compulsory education and institutional formation while arguing _hard_ against aristocracy and organizational calcification (and draws the important parallel between them). Neat.

Article note: Uh... those are power _right of way_ in order to put _power lines_ in them. You know, the power lines that supply power to the neighborhoods, and also will start fires if disrupted? Yes, the aggressive tree cutting is unsightly, but not doing that leads to power outages and ...getting burnt down by power company negligence like California.

Article note: Well that's some bullshit.

Article note: I harp on this a lot. Both in the sense of "know your context, your narrow myopic expertise helps no one but yourself unless you situate it," in the sense that "we need to constrain complexity," and especially in the sense that abstractions rarely truly eliminate complexity, they just hide it in leaky ways that can make the whole ever harder to reason about.