Book Wish List

[drunkpotato]

There are books I would love to write if I had the training and skill, and the follow-through to finish a book

Comments

[drunkpotato]

And in a more dorky vein:

Fault Tolerant: Why democracy is the ultimate self-correcting system

[goteam]

Start writing, cos. I want to read these books, and they will be lots more fun if executed with your fabulously snarky style and flair.

[drunkpotato]

I would love to. I have a whole rant about how we are constantly wasting our efforts looking for a mythical "perfect system", when it would be much more efficient to recognize that we make mistakes and try to account for that.

Specifically I'm thinking of the difference between the Visa credit system (faults and all) and our own dear electoral college: one assumes perfect knowledge, the other has error-correction and fault tolerance built in. And of course, which one do we entrust with mere votes and the will of the people, versus which one handles the holy dollar.

But at the moment it's just a rant.