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"One of the great discoveries of modern ecology is that apex predators, macrofauna, the plants and animals we notice and admire are perched precariously atop a vast network of invisible supports. A tiger is the temporary result of too many worms gathering in one place."

Hot dang do I wish I could write like this.

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Work from home and outsourcing both seem to open the door to fragility. Reminds me of Taleb’s (PBUH) assertion that restaurants, music scenes, etc are anti-fragile on a macro scale even while the individual units involved are very prone to failure. You get the same people hopping from kitchen to kitchen, bar to bar, band to band, able to quickly share what works and what doesn’t. Those are industries that can’t exist detached from space and they don’t even have to be aware of the pitfalls of working from home or saving money by exporting the jobs somewhere 13000 miles away, so grounded they are to place in particular. Techne of any sort is art at its core, and the boardroom would be remiss to pretend that engineers aren’t artists

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