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Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote, “I would not give a fig for simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for simplicity on the other side of complexity.”

MS. TIPPETT:

I love that.

MR. LEDERACH:

And that is what the haikuist is after. So I do a variety of things. One of them is that I’ve become much more respectful of, I think, the... See more

A few months ago I was at a conference where Robin Hanson spoke about prediction markets.[1] He argued that given how much of companies' outcomes are driven by who they choose to hire, and how non-rigorous the process of selecting employees and revisiting those selections is, there's a literal trillion-dollar opportunity in getting it right.... See more

In architecture, fiction will replace function. (“Form follows fiction.”)

— Bernard Tschumi, “Manifestos,” 1978

But nature is not simply dynamic, either. Some things change quickly, but they are nested within other things that change less quickly. Leaves change more quickly than tress, and trees more quickly than forests. Weather changes faster than climate. It’s chaos, within order, within chaos, within higher order. The order that is most real is the order

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And worst of all, we’ve lost sight of the most salient part about computers: their malleability. We’ve acquiesced the creation of our virtual worlds, where we now spend most of our time, to the select few who can spend the millions to hire enough software engineers. So many of the photons that hit our eyes come from purely fungible pixels, yet for... See more