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macroresilience
Personal blog · macroresilience.comeconomicssystemsbusiness
macroresilience is a personal blog at macroresilience.com about economics, systems and business. Since 2010, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “People Make Poor Monitors for Computers”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite macroresilience for its writing on complex systems, resilience and political economy. Comments reference its argument that defense in depth can increase fragility, and its take on 1984 and totalitarianism.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
resilience, not stability
Most-linked posts?
- People Make Poor Monitors for Computers3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-12-30
- How to commit fraud and get away with it: A Guide for CEOs3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-03-09
What Hacker News says?
Thanks for posting this. The most obvious point (to me) is that it would be very hard to install a 1984-style regime in a nation where almost every educated person has read 1984 . Anything that even has the slightest overtone of old-school totalitarianism gets mocked and derided by the media and the educated classes. No-one intelligent takes the "war on terror" seriously, for example. In a democracy, whoever influen…
Comment linking /2013/04/08/radical-centrism-uniting-the-radical-left-and-the-radical-right
on “Sales of George Orwell’s ’1984′ up 69 percent on Amazon”Submitted Financing Investment In A World Without Maturity Transformation as a story · 48 points
HN discussionAs it happens, I was just reading http://www.macroresilience.com/2012/02/21/the-control-revolu... today, the high point of which is describing "defense in depth" as a fallacy because of its tendency to increase fragility in complex systems in the long term.
Comment linking /2012/02/21/the-control-revolution-and-its-discontents-the-uncanny-valley
on “How Complex Systems Fail (1998)”Submitted How to commit fraud and get away with it: A Guide for CEOs as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted People Make Poor Monitors for Computers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to commit fraud and get away with it: A Guide for CEOs (2013) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to commit fraud and get away with it: A Guide for CEOs (2013) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted People Make Poor Monitors for Computers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Doug Engelbart’s Vision and The Irrelevance of Human Intelligence Augmentation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inequality and Moral Hazard Rents in the Financial Sector as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Invention Is Not The Same As Innovation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted People Make Poor Monitors for Computers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deskilling and The Cul-de-Sac of Near Perfect Automation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Pathology of Stabilisation in Complex Adaptive Systems as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Control Revolution And Its Discontents as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
