Continued from Insignificant Verbiage. It’s been fun the last few days, taking the position in a running office argument that “irregardless” is a word. I’m well aware that it’s ridiculous. That’s precisely why it’s so much fun. When I hear people complaining in an exaggerated way — e.g. “Ughh, I hhhate when people say that!” — my [...]
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I’ve sort of been on vacation so I’m a little late with this. Here’s Paul Romer making his case for charter cities: The TED Blog (via Design Thinking) conveys the gist better than I possibly could. It’s about making ways to change the rules: China, he says, demonstrates both the strengths and weaknesses of working with rules. [...]
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Continuing the discussion of moral codes… It’s difficult to encapsulate this creative attitude into a tidy formula, but I think this conveys my theory of the “practice of theory” as well as anything: There are exceptions to every rule, and rules for every exception. We need rules to live effectively (not just rules to live [...]
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