WILL COLLIER DISAGREES WITH ME ON DAVID BROOKS. Well, you know, I do try to give people the benefit of the doubt.
UPDATE: Beyond Brooks & Collier: Eric S. Raymond: Escalating Complexity and the Collapse of Elite Authority. “When I look at the pattern of failures, I am reminded of something I learned from software engineering: planning fails when the complexity of the problem exceeds the capacity of the planners to reason about it.”