Why good innovations mint new elites — and how to tell the dangerous cases from the merely disruptive Every year something like forty thousand Americans die on the roads. The strongest large-scale data we have — from driverless fleets logging hundreds of millions of miles — suggests that within the limited areas where they operate, … Continue reading The Friction and the Fortress
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The Cost of Seating: Rationality as Test Case
Capstone to the Seat series — a worked example of why the seat matters. The payoff of refusing the view from nowhere is not that it dissolves other people's confidence. It is the discipline that tells a staked position from one built so the world can't touch it. A disagreement gets answered, and the answer … Continue reading The Cost of Seating: Rationality as Test Case
