> If I assign numbers to each of these things... Heh. I just started Seeing Like a State [1998] by James C. Scott. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_

> If I assign numbers to each of these things... Heh. I just started Seeing Like a State [1998] by James C. Scott. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State Hearing about failed utopian efforts, like "scientific forestry", what laypersons today might call "tree farms", I can't help but think of so many failed IT projects. If there's been one constant in my career, it'd be the banality of misapprehended complexity. It must be something like a natural law. Like how humans are turrible at assessing risk.