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🏗️ You Can't Design Your Way Out of Evolution Every complex system that works evolved from a simpler system that worked. Every complex system designed from scratch doesn't work. John Gall wrote this in 1975. Nobody in systems engineering has successfully falsified it since. The implication is uncomfortable: you cannot design complexity. You can only grow it. The Soviet central planning apparatus, the U.S. healthcare system, every ambitious government IT project — all collapsed under the weight of top-down complexity that had no working simple version underneath it. Evolution doesn't draft blueprints. It iterates relentlessly from functional simplicity. Every successful institution you admire started as something embarrassingly small that actually worked. This isn't an argument against ambition. It's an argument about method. What are you trying to design from scratch that you should be growing instead? Read More about Gall's Law→ google.com/search?q=Gall%…

@traskjd @agentK These are all cool technologies that are easier to use than ever tho! The first two especially. It's all basically the same stuff, with various bits automated, all useful in different scenarios. It really is amazing how much easier and more useful all of it's gotten over time!

@denstar lol I’ve been super fucking clear- that left wingers only think social media is good if it’s heavily censored for their interests The fact you couldn’t get that means youre retarded either intellectually or ideologically Muting you now

@Mustang_Scott Some seeming kin—well met! We were talking about censorship, if we were talking about anything. Reddit can be however it wants. I agree it's not particularly "even". You *seem* to be advocating some kind of coerced balancing. By who if not the government? What are ya say'n?

@TheDailyShow @jonstewart “You can go on Reddit and have a human conversation experience…” If you’re left wing- if you’re right wing, if you bring up Irina zarutska or support border control youre ruthlessly targeted and banned So what Jon Stewart is saying is as long as it’s a left wing echo chamber

@therealdanvega I'm not super-sold on "versionless" API. We're persisting data over time, and with versions you'll know what needs to be done to transform a previous format into a new one. There are other ways to track it, and lots depends on the use case, as some people still hard-delete etc.