We need to move beyond being saddened by the nature of systems. It's like being sad about gravity, evolution, or the speed of light. Network effects, social/cul

We need to move beyond being saddened by the nature of systems. It's like being sad about gravity, evolution, or the speed of light. Network effects, social/cultural-scale and emergent behavior are the same. If your design is subject to a failure, it's a failure of your design. This is an empowering viewpoint. Let's stop blaming factors outside our control and find ways to create resiliency. The problem is when a bunch of optimistic, altruistic, talented individuals just imagine we could choose to do better, like in the social dilemma. Similar environments and pressures will lead to similar outcome, like carcinization. Somehow we still manage to be surprised and disappointed when this happens.