The Machine, Data Rot, and Jos Burgers Sells Holes Not Drills
Today, I wrote nothing. ¯(°_o)/¯ The asymetric nature of change: Humans change slow The machine changes fast “The machine” as systems of power (politics, technology, institutions, finance). They are self-reinforcing, self-interested, and largely autonomous from the individuals inside them. A banker, a politician, a programmer; each feels like they are making choices. But the system they inhabit has its own logic, its own momentum. The machine moves, whether or not any individual wills it. ...