"Once one appreciates the difficulty of coordinating even small organizations, and that bigger coordination is harder, one can see why it can be extremely difficult to manage the vaster coordination required by government. How can ordinary citizens continue over centuries to coordinate to support interest groups that coordinate to support politicians who coordinate to approve and manage policies that empower agency heads to coordinate to manage thousands of agency employees to achieve the vague incoherent goals of many millions of citizens?"
A curation of awesome things.
See also, The Real Adam
February 8, 2010
February 5, 2010
Arrivals | Development Status | Cultured Code
Pretty strong awesome here.
February 2, 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
February 1, 2010
Ymacs -- An Emacs-like editor for the Web
WHUT. Pretty amazing.
January 29, 2010
Why Arel?
Nick Kallen’s Arel library is a great idea, and the source is a joy to read.
"But my personal reckoning has just shown me that a bunch of libertarian-leaning geeks in Silicon Valley who refuse to engage with government and civic society at all are never going to make an impact on most of the things that actually make a difference in our lives. Everybody in Silicon Valley will tell you they have a gay friend, but they couldn’t stop Prop 8 or get the hate crimes bill passed."
— Free Publicity - Who do we help? This totally isn’t his point, but the combination of words amused me. Worth reading in its entirety.
January 27, 2010
Correct, Beautiful, Fast (In That Order)
Not new advice, but still: +eleventy
January 26, 2010
Poor “Duck” Dunn doesn’t get his moment in the limelight. Even the drummer got a few seconds!
jstn:
Booker T & The MGs, Oslo 1967
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