Society which scorns excellence in plumbing because it’s a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy.
Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
~ John W. Gardner,
Parakala Prabhakarx.comSociety which scorns excellence in plumbing because it’s a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. ~ John W. Gardner,
This was great.
2 hours of Phil poking at leaky abstractions, like real GDP, productivity, tasks, effective compute, and even suffering.
We should aspire to interrogate the models and claims we take for granted as well as Phil.
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