This is my roman empire, and I go back and forth on my conclusions at least once a day.

On one hand, clarity and structure make a platform that's easy to build and collaborate on. If the system enforces the rules, and the rules are a good model of reality, everyone knows what to expect. Pushing the world forward one ISO standard at a time.

On the other hand, greatness can't be planned. By the time we know enough to make a plan, the really important stuff has already happened. "Everyone" expected solar to always be a somewhat marginal energy source, so why spend a lot of time standardizing formats?

And it's not like this is a just a thing in tech. Buildings used to be fine tolerance artifacts built by craftsman. Now we slap them together prefab parts and just add more caulk until it works.

I'm genuinely shocked that the electrical grid works. And the more I learn about how it works, the more shocked I become.

Are we losing our attention spans as a rational response to a world that changing faster and faster; or is our lack of attention creating a less stable world?

Ultimately, we make progress not when the code runs fast, but when the humans run fast; but sometimes that means the code needs to run fast too.

And thank you for the well wishes!