Alex Feinman<p>When you see "increased efficiency", translate that to "increased fragility and parasitic load".</p><p>When you read about "redundancy", what they really mean is "resiliency".</p><p>The real world is bursty, uneven, inconsistent, error-prone, heterogeneous. It is not amenable to assembly lines. Efficiency predicated on eliminating those forms of waste cannot survive common system shocks.</p><p>And we're in a period of enormous system shock.</p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/governance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>governance</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/softwareDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softwareDev</span></a></p>