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Fast · Patrick Collison
Apollo 8 took 134 days to prepare for launch
Disneyland took 366 days to build.
The Empire State Building took 410 days to construct
The Pentagon took 491 days to construct
Boeing 747 took 930 days to develop
One of my favorite curations from @patrickc:... See more
... See moreInfrastructure has become nearly impossible to build, in large parts because of endless legal review. See for example the California HSR’s environmental review timeline - the paperwork alone (without any physical construction whatsoever) is scheduled to take twenty years, from 2005 to 2025, just for phase one (they don’t even have a schedule for
Simply cutting out the process works in rebuilds. A concentrated group of people want their highway back more than they want a new thing, loss aversion and all that, and disaster brings the attention and will needed to push things through. Even California was able to rebuild quickly after the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, reopening the Santa Monica
... See morePacky McCormick • How to Fix a Country in 12 Days
In this environment, the traditional virtues of infrastructure — permanence, scale, and linear efficiency — become strategic liabilities. A project designed to last a hundred years may now become obsolete in twenty.