I can’t agree with your proposals for what to learn from this failure, which honestly read like cached thoughts to me. The actual issues outlined are hubris, which is perhaps the oldest known human bias, and an immense focus on centralized coordination with all the immense failures that has caused throughout human history not being solvable by fiat.
The lessons aren’t ‘evolve’ and ‘ship’. They are ‘pick an achievable goal’ and ‘let the people coordinate amongst themselves’. The former are simply methods aimed at achieving ‘pick an achievable goal’. Sometimes they are the right methods, and other times, they are not. The achievable goal of the web: ‘follow links’. The web is also obviously not centralized (no matter what the people complaining about social media tell you.). Local centers of coordination will pop up organically, without having to solve the hard problem of planning them in totality.
We tend to ‘learn’ what we want to learn, and that mix of hubris and lack of new thought makes it hard to learn when we fail due to our hubris.
I can’t agree with your proposals for what to learn from this failure, which honestly read like cached thoughts to me. The actual issues outlined are hubris, which is perhaps the oldest known human bias, and an immense focus on centralized coordination with all the immense failures that has caused throughout human history not being solvable by fiat.
The lessons aren’t ‘evolve’ and ‘ship’. They are ‘pick an achievable goal’ and ‘let the people coordinate amongst themselves’. The former are simply methods aimed at achieving ‘pick an achievable goal’. Sometimes they are the right methods, and other times, they are not. The achievable goal of the web: ‘follow links’. The web is also obviously not centralized (no matter what the people complaining about social media tell you.). Local centers of coordination will pop up organically, without having to solve the hard problem of planning them in totality.
We tend to ‘learn’ what we want to learn, and that mix of hubris and lack of new thought makes it hard to learn when we fail due to our hubris.