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I place a high premium on honesty, but I also like things that work.
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I'm increasingly thinking that every functioning system has two forms: The abstraction that outsiders are led to believe, and the reality that insiders actually and carefully operate. You don't incrementally learn a system. You eventually unlearn its necessary lies.
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To be very clear: That complex systems have abstractions isn't a surprise to me. It's that any system in which you _haven't_ had to unlearn half your assumptions, isn't a system you've learned in the first place. At least for systems of any complexity.
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Law is a lot more ex post facto, and he-who-has-the-gold-makes-the-rules, than it would appear. Medicine is a lot more "just distract the patient till the body fixes itself". Microprocessor behavior is determined, on other things. Global PKI is a lot more DNS than it appears.
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I recommend "The Systems Bible" by John Galt on this topic
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Good tip, thanks! Any counter-examples for: "A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.", anyone?
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That's a pretty abstract statement ;)
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I can't see where it doesn't work. That includes math.
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I really love this tweet. It was 2+ years before I stopped finding new “yes, but”s in #911. There was, it seemed, always some deeper, more-hidden physical reality I couldn’t see. Now, I question even the Copenhagen Interpretation.
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What do you think got me on this track? :)
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I've thought for a while that startups work where teams at large companies don't, because at a startup there's not 30 lateral managers who think they're your boss too. In other words, isolation and separation yields certain classes of success.
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A metric that fails once its well known, succeeds when something keeps its not well known. That thing, it turns out, might well be bullshit.
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