7 thoughts on “Complex Societies”

1. “Sarbannes-Oxley does to double entry accounting, what the Occupy Movement did to poop control.”

   1. What I really want to know is why my 2mo old puppy, Max Stormpooper, that has been doubling in size every month, produces three pounds of crap for every pound of dog food I feed him?

      1. oops, 3mo old puppy, born Dec 23.

         1. He is probably eating other poop that he finds laying around adding to his own stock of ready to poop poop.

      2. Double-check those units: dog food is sold by weight but poop is scooped by volume.

      3. He’s also adding water to the poop mass. That probably explains the difference right there.

2. This is the most common mistake of mankind in all fields (physicists may be an exception.) In every area where people make rules they screw up.

   Principles trump rules. Of course, then you have the matter of choosing the right principles. The first principle might be, don’t be so dedicated to making rules.

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