Path dependency in infrastructure is not just a hardware issue, and Effective Altruism (for all its failings) fills a gap identified by its critics. Plus: form echoes function in the writing of Stephen Jay Gould! And the Gothenburg book fair is inimical to the authorial sensibility!

Path dependency in infrastructure is not just a hardware issue, and Effective Altruism (for all its failings) fills a gap identified by its critics. Plus: form echoes function in the writing of Stephen Jay Gould! And the Gothenburg book fair is inimical to the authorial sensibility!