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Why did agriculture mechanize and not construction?
A huge part of your job today may be simply resolving and reconfiguring the natural entropy in your office, but poorly communicated deadlines will remain so whether they’re written on an index card, sent in an email, or appended to a “task” in Asana. If you put something on a digital kanban board without enough information, it is no more useful tha... See more
Matt Alston • Your Project Management Software Can't Save You
It’s underdigitized. According to the McKinsey Industry Digitalization Index, only the agriculture sector is less digitized than construction. The typical IT spend for construction companies is 1-2% of the revenue, compared with the 3-5% average across industries. Moreover, there are many barriers to digital technology adoption including skill mana... See more
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Why are rising labor costs expressed as less detail/ornamentation? Some kinds of activities — performing a string quartet is the canonical example — just intrinsically require a certain amount of labor. No amount of economic growth will alter the fact that it takes four musicians about 15 minutes each to play Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge. But why does i... See more
David Schaengold • Ugly Architecture, Mediocre Buildings
Then why didn’t humans abandon farming when the plan backfired? Partly because it took generations for the small changes to accumulate and transform society and, by then, nobody remembered that they had ever lived differently.