In my father’s print shop in Bologna, the machines were loud, but the rules were quiet. You printed the manifesto, you printed the parish bulletin, and you printed the government decree.
The headlines are predictably dramatic: seven people dead in an A66 crash; twelve arrests following deadly "joyrides"; and now, the Prime Minister calling a social media trend…
The perennial cycle of technological hype always exhausts me. Every year, we are promised a quantum leap—a revolution powered by some arcane new chipset or RGB LED strip.
When you spend enough time looking at how real systems—be they congressional budgets or functioning economies—actually operate, you learn that competence is boring.