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Taking the Long View
some institutions that seem “stagnant” are actually powerful forces for generating legitimacy. It being slow is the point, much in the same way that a song isn’t played as one chord. Music isn’t played to be finished. Much of the importance of modern institutions is to act as lightning rods for negotiation and conversation. If you are *only* a tech... See more
Simon de la Rouviere • Inside Andreessen's Techno-Optimism Manifesto: NPC Meme as Ideology
Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast
leonlinsx.com
Change is rarely straightforward, and that is one of the central premises of this book. Sometimes it’s as complex as chaos theory and as slow as evolution. Even things that seem to happen suddenly arise from deep roots in the past
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
The proper role of commerce is to both exploit and absorb those shocks, passing some of the velocity and wealth on to the development of new infrastructure, but respecting the deeper rhythms of governance and culture.