Agree. As long as boring works, that's fantastic. Things like our core infrastructure, institutions, and services should be boring and predictable. That lets th

Agree. As long as boring works, that's fantastic. Things like our core infrastructure, institutions, and services should be boring and predictable. That lets them fade into the background so we can focus our efforts elsewhere, and it also means that it attracts less of the impatient / selfish / spectacle-driven crowd. Classic case is finance - people derided Canada's banking sector as being boring and not taking advantage of new fancy financial instruments, but lo and behold the financial recession hits and Canada's banks remain insulated from what happened in the US, Ireland, and other places that were exciting and flashy. [1] This isn't to say that all of life should be boring and conservative, just that we shouldn't chase 'interesting' at the expense of 'stable and functional' in core areas of our society (or our apps). [1] http://policyoptions.irpp.org/issues/the-fault-lines-of-federalism/avoiding-the-financial-crisis-lessons-from-canada/ http://policyoptions.irpp.org/issues/the-fault-lines-of-fede...