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Building a Clock the Scale of Stonehenge
In the last two decades, or maybe even a bit more, you've become very interested in this idea the long view. But if i look at your own career, a lot of the most influential things you have done have been quite finite. So why seek durability if your own influence has typically come through the supposedly transient? Well, some of us just getting older. And e developed whent. I was studying buildings, and then later writing about civilization and understanding that part of what makes a dynamically self stabilizing and learning system is that we tend to pay attention to fast parts rather than slow ones.