#руди

Мы сделали канал, чтобы перенести наши разговоры и подележки про развитие из личных one-on-one чатиков в общий чат и сделать его публичным. И самим быстрее развиваться и с миром соединяться.

Надо признать, что это работает не совсем так как задумано.

Проблема 1. Самый мощный чат и самые живые дискуссии в чатике «Админы Шмит16». Епрст! Я уж устал спрашивать там после каждого поста, а какого фига ты это в админском чатике, а не в общем пишешь 🙂 Сдался. Часть этой механики я понимаю, периодически в обсуждениях всплывают не полностью социально приемлемые темы, но это не так часто. В основном - это разного рода барьеры, предубеждения, стыд и что-то еще в чем я не до конца разобрался.

Проблема 2. Еще один эффект меня совсем удивляет и я тоже его не до конца понимаю. У части авторов в Шмит16 есть барьер написать в группу (мол достаточно ли это качественная мысль, чтобы делиться ей на такую публику). При этом в других источниках они могут преодолеть этот барьер. Разве, что у нашего любимого друга Сержа Фаге нет никаких барьеров. За что ему отдельное спасибо 🙂 hugs.

Ну и это помимо ожидаемых проблем с тем, что все участники действующие предприниматели и им есть чем заняться кроме того, чтобы писать сюда.

Попробую в этих проблемах увидеть возможности.

Вот сейчас возьму и нагло скопирую целый кусок переписки из админского чатика.

#руди

Вызвали на посадку. Не успел дописать. Вот уже в Москве заморочился и оформил на основе диалогов из чатика админов "Триллер о любви к сахару". Прочитал и еще раз кайфанул :) Так это трогательно.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-tZigk3JQM_DDkWyMQRikTfU6JWyephs-FvZ6Q4YwS0/edit?usp=sharing

Простите, что нужно уходить по ссылке. Телеграф блокируют и нативно непонятно как оформить.

#руди #марьин

Толя из Лос-Анджелеса мне в личном чатике записал кругляш о том откуда барьеры постить в общий канал.

Ничего, какое-то время ради общего дела поработаю форвард-менеджером.

Guys, I know that many of us here have heard of the Who book. My friends are using this method of hiring in their companies, and we also do it in Smartcat. We even built a slide-deck with a recap of the book that we give to each manager before he or she proceeds with her first hire. The deck is pretty lengthy, though still much shorter than the book, a sort of step-by-step manual. If someone is interested in having it, let me know, and I will share it in the comments.

The one thing which in my mind was not covered deeply enough in the book was how to extract true information from reference calls. Based on my experience, reference calls are undervalued by many companies, which often leads to costly mistakes. And though the book gives very good advice on how to do it to extract objective information, in our company, we often weren't able to identify traits and competence that are not the real strengths of a candidate.
I personally had a hard time extracting the info from a reference about the candidate’s weaknesses or situations/setups where he/she didn’t perform the best or faced adversity in her role. It is not a goal by itself to find where the candidate falls short. The thing is that we all have areas for improvement at any moment in time for any role. And a manager's role is to identify them and then make a conscious decision on how critical they are for the role, or we can live with it taking into account how much we value the candidate's strengths.

Recently I have been working with David Skok. He is with Matrix Partners (which is our investor) and 4-times founder before (2 IPOs), and the author of a very valuable resource for entrepreneurs in b2b software (https://www.forentrepreneurs.com/). The most impactful thing that David shares with tech start-ups is his in-depth knowledge about an often overlooked stage in b2b tech companies' growth trajectories. It is between "product-market fit" and scaling stages and is almost non-existent in the b2c world. But this deserves a separate post one day. Now back to hiring and reference calls.
After a couple of calls with David and very high-rank CEOs, I got to learn how to be relentless in drilling down in search of true information. And then repeated it myself, which gave me a new level of outcomes.
The principals are mostly described here: https://www.forentrepreneurs.com/extreme-referencing/

The most important for me became:
1. Asking how a reference evaluates a candidate between 0 and 10, or better compared to another best boss or a subordinate he/she has ever had before. Then don't settle when hearing 7-8-9 or even 9.5, which common wisdom says is fine. This is where I now start drilling down until I uncover how the reference defines the gap for the candidate between the mark he gave and 10. Often it is just a subtle clue on your first calls. But be sure, there is always smth you will find here if you don't settle back to comfort, which is "he is great."
2. Most often, after 2-3 calls, you will find a couple of things that direct you to the areas that are not very well developed by the candidate. And then you do as many more calls as needed until the story becomes really consistent, which means that you understand the details of the landscape and the context where the candidate worked that caused these drawbacks to the surface, and how it influenced the businesses of these companies and how he/she dealt with this adversity. The important thing here is to be prepared to make a lot of calls and continue digging until the story presents itself clearly, and you have no major contradictions in it. Don't stop at four calls with the references that the candidate shared with you.
3. Then you thoughtfully relate it to your landscape, culture, and the major goal for the role. And analyze it together with strengths, of course.

#smolnikov
It may sound simple, as all the basic principles in every craft. The thing is that you will feel a huge difference in outcomes when you are able to extract quite objective and consistent knowledge about a candidate's weaknesses for a particular role. Don't just settle with A+ scorecard, and "all the reference calls proved he/she was a superhero."
Unfortunately, I made an effort and invested time to upgrade this skill only after some costly mistakes, even though it was well covered by several standard reference calls.
P.S. забыл подписаться сверху в посте, с этим ботами, пока разберешься - конверсия падает :)

Одна из мыслей которая стала очевидной в последнее время: есть много разных интерпретаций реальности, и они равно валидны. сейчас я одинаково верю в научный материализм, в солипсизм-идеализм, в рекурсивную симуляцию, в fabric of reality Дэвида Дойча, и в буддизм-даосизм. более того считаю что они все реальны одновременно.

о философии в другой раз. сегодня хотел поделиться моей любимой интерпретацией реальности, которую описывают в коротком мультике ниже.

как говорит мой друг Женя Курышев – этот мультик на 7 минут надо показывать детям вместо многого другого.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI

discuss

#марьин

Я вижу две категории серферов на Венис Бич (щас живу в ЛА), примерно пополам: парни и девушки по 20-30 лет, и мужики 50-60 лет.

Кореллирует с U turn of happiness in life.

Когда самое счастливое время - в начале. No commitments.

Потом один за одним они появляются: бизнес вырос/выросла business complexity; семья, дети; родители стареют, пора заботиться. И так спускаемся к нижней точке U.

А потом вверх. Объём commitments в 50-60 начинает уменьшаться - и здравствуй сёрфинг.

И я тоже коррелирую: по той же причине решил пока не делать сёрфинг, хотя океан по боком - ‘патамушта надо столько всего сделать’.

#фаге

I live on the move and constantly shift between Moscow, Silicon Valley, Zurich and other places. I enjoy this for many reasons which I'll write about separately.

Today I want to write about why I love Moscow and see it as the best place for me in the world. This is my own view, shaped by my experience of life. It will be different for everyone. A lot of this will be comparing Moscow to San Francisco, New York and London.

A note: I grew up in England and in the US; English is my primary language; culture-wise I am a mix. My love for Moscow isn't because I am Russian and can't deal with other places.

1. People. In Moscow I have an exceptional community of friends – hundreds of people – who do a lot of things together. We have parties for 20-40 people each week; we do Burning Man together; we hug; we talk about the hard things in our lives; we support each other and we love each other. My American friends who I bring to our events say "How are those people so emotionally open and tactile and nice?? I have never seen this before!" I'm very well-connected in the US and yet I never see communities like ours there.

2. Freedom of speech about issues which matter to me. Most of all this is about the lack of postmodern bullshit which pervades western countries. Example: I was recently at a biotech conference in Seattle. On a panel there I answered a question about "What is your diversity policy?" with "I hire smart people and I don't care what their gender or skin color is." After this an email was sent apologizing for inviting me to the conference. Those diversity people do not value real diversity of opinion. They want different colored people who all think the same. This toxic foolishness does not happen in Moscow.

3. Moscow is a safe, clean, spacious city. It is not Singapore, yet it is close. There are no mentally ill homeless people, no trash lying in the streets. The streets are beautiful, well-maintained, well-designed. A young woman can walk in the city center with a laptop in her hand at night and be safe. A lot of the advertising on the streets is about charities and social projects. The city is both bustling with life and spacious + not overcrowded. San Francisco, London or New York are unpleasant dumps compared to Moscow. And with each year Moscow is becoming better and better.

4. Service. The coffee shops clean and awesome, a chain like Coffeemania has amazing coffee and food and atmosphere and beautiful people – all for prices lower than those at Starbucks in London or New York. For the cost of a crappy Uber in San Francisco where the driver looks annoyed at having to drive you, here you get a Maybach with a well-dressed, polite, smiling person who genuinely wants you to have a good experience. These two examples extend to a ton of other aspects of life.

5. Cost. I want to interact with cool people from all parts of society, not only with multimillionaire entrepreneurs and software engineers who make $500k a year and are struggling to pay their bills. Or unhappy demoralized people who have to commute to work for 3 hours a day. Moscow is much cheaper than other major cities.

6. Beautiful, fashionable women with far fewer sexual hangups. One friend, the organizer of Snctm (an amazing erotic party I posted about recently) said she thinks Russian women are more conservative. I don't agree. Here women are flirty, cool, fun, enthusiastic, positive, sexually liberated. It is as if women feel safer with men because they aren't constantly told "Men are bad" by the media.

7. Engineering talent. Here it is easy to find amazing software engineers who are looking for cool projects to work on.

Here is what I don't like about Moscow and why I will never live here full-time:

1. The tech community is extremely strong yet too small. For those of us with global ambitions and a voracious desire to learn there aren't enough people to learn from. And the tech industry outside software is non-existent. I am building a protein engineering + deep learning biotechnology company. There is nothing for me here except DL engineers. Nobody to discuss my work with.

2. Availability of capital. Despite the glitzy facade, an ordinary street in Palo Alto has far more wealth than the wealthiest enclave in the Moscow suburbs. And the capital in Moscow is not smart money, the wealthy here do not understand how the modern world works and are slowly losing their relative position in the world while skiing down the slopes of Courchevel. And I require large-scale, intelligent outside capital to do the things I do. Investors who know what it means when I say "We take fingerprints of complex mixtures by combining 10^6 non-specific protein sensors with DNA signal transduction, amplify with PCR and do supervised learning on the output."

3. Non-engineering talent and managerial talent. As I already said, there is no serious community of talent here doing biotech or rocketry or fusion power or neural interfaces. In San Francisco I can walk with a Neuralink engineer for an hour and learn the state of the art. Doesn't exist here. And – management talent is terrible, Russians are awful at operations and disciplined execution.

4. Moscow is not cosmopolitan and is isolated. There are few foreigners. There are no real Japanese restaurants. Moscow is an isolated and unimportant part of the world which has little impact on the future.

5. Winter weather. It sucks.

Finally, I like bridging different worlds. Whether it is linking scientists, customers and investors or linking Russia, the West and Asia or linking software, biotech and psychology. There is no point in choosing only one thing. Choose everything, blend it, and be unique.

I suspect what I dislike about Moscow is what makes it great. If there were more wealth it would be much more expensive. More cosmopolitanism would bring foolish postmodern ideas and spoil the culture.

We Russians often complain. About our government, about what can be better. I want Moscow to be Moscow. I don't want it to be westernized, democratized, and all that. I love it as it is now.

Discuss and comment if you love or hate the post.

Кстати. Я пишу на английском потому что мне (а) проще (б) хочется делиться с друзьями которые не читают на русском. Практикуйте английский, полезная штука :)

Просьба: если вам нравится наш чат и то что мы здесь обсуждаем, поделитесь пожалуйста с друзьями, в соцсетях, в ваших собственных чатах. Наш чат совсем не коммерческий, но нам будет классно если будет больше читателей :)

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#фаге

Yesterday I was sitting with my coach Andrey. We spoke about two questions – one highly practical, one philosophical. I am debriefing from our meeting and decided to write about both. Especially since I think part of the audience is more interested in practical business stories, and part is interested in philosophy and personal development.

PART 1: CHALLENGES AROUND MIXING UP STAKEHOLDER GROUPS

The practical question was around getting my new biotech company start to work without my constant pushing. This was mostly around recognizing that there are several key stakeholder groups: (a) scientists-architects (b) engineers-operators (c) investors (d) customers. That my role is to integrate those groups. And that my main challenge is I mix up groups A and B.

I have a group of heavily involved world-renown scientists who together with me are designing the architecture of our system. And I am constantly trying to hire them to do execution lab work. And having trouble. Because guys like Eric Drexler and George Church (as well as somewhat more junior people who are still at the top of global science) don't really want to drop their positions at Oxford and Harvard to go and use pipettes in a basement lab somewhere. And people who are ready to do lab work tend not to know what protein topology is optimal for generating high-dimensional data because that's a question which can be productively evaluated by maybe 20 people in the entire world.

This is very weird for me. I am so used to the software world where everyone from the architect of the system to the junior frontender is fulltime on one project. There is no useful concept of "technical advisor" in software – when someone says "oh that guy is a part-time advisor" my reaction is "that guy is an uncommitted and irrelevant person who is at best investor eye candy."

Andrey helped me see that these two groups are entirely separate, have entirely different motivations, and are both essential to our success. And my role is to integrate them, make sure they understand each other, are aligned all the time. And with time and learning-by-doing and a great deal of success, groups A and B can move closer together – some of the superstar scientists will join full-time and work with the lab engineers; some of the lab engineers will absorb knowledge from superstar scientists and become architects.

Another weird aspect of all this is how a great coach immediately sees those issues, and how they are invisible to me because I am inside the system. This is why you have a coach. My takeaway here is to talk with Andrey even more regularly and to always have a coach.

#фаге

PART 2: PHILOSOPHICAL ATTITUDES AND FEARS ABOUT MONEY

I am fortunate enough to be in a good financial position in life. But there is a nagging desire somewhere which says "want more! want hundreds of millions of dollars in cash, now!" and another part which says "wanting money is bad! bad person!"

I have a complicated relationship with money. When I was a teenager I thought it was the key to everything. Then I made millions at 22 from selling my first company. Bought a Ferrari and a Bentley and did all the other shit which was supposed to make me happy. It was euphoria for a couple months and then deep depression, all the way to suicidal thoughts. A powerful lesson in that money does not in fact make you happy. Genuinely by far the worst, most horrible period in my entire life was when I first made a lot of money.

Over the next 12 years and especially in the last 24 months I gradually unraveled my fears about money and status. I stopped wearing expensive clothes. Gave away watches as gifts. I live in nice hotels but out of a small carry-on suitcase which contains everything I need. Now I have far more close friends, date much cooler women, have better relationships with my family, am much more productive and happy. People want to be with me for my uniqueness and love me for who I am, not for what I do, or what I have. And there are so many people like this. And it is so deeply fulfilling.

But still the thoughts of "want hundreds of millions of dollars!!" simultaneously with "wanting money is bad!" do cross my mind. Andrey had two observations here.

First of all, the critical path to growth is to differentiate and integrate different aspects of personality.

"Differentiate" means "notice and observe rather than be captured by; turn subject into object" – for example observe how my attention is attracted to a shiny new Lamborghini Urus and that this attention is "not me." This is self-awareness – what meditation and the like help with.

"Integrate" means "accept that what is noticed is part of me and stop rejecting aspects of me." For example recognize that scanning for symbols of status (like the aforementioned shiny Urus) is part of what made me who I am. Has a good evolutionary rationale. And should be embraced and loved, without letting it own me. This is self-love.

The above differentiate-then-integrate has to be done with every aspect of consciousness. It is what can make us self-aware AND whole. It is very different from the person who just pays attention to status symbols without noticing it. This is what "waking up" means in Buddhism and other contemplative traditions. Notice parts of yourself, then embrace them.

Secondly, Andrey asked the question "ok, play with your fantasies and say you get an extra $300m right now – what would it change?"

All my answers here came down to:

1. Emotional:
- Make me even cooler – i.e. status, love.
- Guarantee my nice life can keep going – i.e. safety, security.
2. Instrumental:
- I can do more cool stuff for my friends and family and for my businesses.
- I can have more convenience and support infrastructure.
- I can invest more in my mission.

The emotional part is a complete illusion, it is completely false. Coolness and love doesn't come from money, it comes from the energy you give others and from being whole. And safety and security comes from trust for the world and life in the moment. I did not feel cool or feel safe when I turned from an MBA student into a multimillionaire. So the idea that more money will help this is pretty fucking dumb.

The instrumental part is more complicated. Thing is, I can already do a lot of cool things for my friends and family and I should just do them. Often the coolest thing is to organize a party or just to call and help with an emotionally difficult moment. Doesn't require any money. Plus I don't think it is good to offer people or businesses financial help in most cases. I would be much weaker if I had billionaire parents who always solved all my problems. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger. Strength comes from challenge.

Convenience ultimately comes from being surrounded by other people who want to do things together and help me with what they know. And this is about building relationships.

In terms of mission, one of my friends rightly says "instead of making $50bn ourselves to invest in mind uploading, we should just come up with a good plan and then go and encourage Larry Page to do it. He wants to upload too, so clearly the issue isn't money but a good plan." And all my life I've easily been able to raise investment capital for things I am passionate about anyway.

I think the takeaway in my case is to (a) love money without being consumed by it, same as all other aspects of life (b) recognize that lack of money doesn't bottleneck me anywhere and the idea that it does is a silly illusion placed there by conventional society.

An illusion which I can observe with a calm smile.

емкие буллеты, как работает и передается коронавирус, и что делать. Дима Пушкарев, спасибо, что пошерил.

A letter from a coronavirus scientist distributed by my department at Stanford School of Medicine today:
MESSAGE FROM JAMES ROBB, MD FCAP, UCSD
Subject: What I am doing for the upcoming COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic
Dear Colleagues, as some of you may recall, when I was a professor of pathology at the University of California San Diego, I was one of the first molecular virologists in the world to work on coronaviruses (the 1970s). I was the first to demonstrate the number of genes the virus contained. Since then, I have kept up with the coronavirus field and its multiple clinical transfers into the human population (e.g., SARS, MERS), from different animal sources.
The current projections for its expansion in the US are only probable, due to continued insufficient worldwide data, but it is most likely to be widespread in the US by mid to late March and April.
Here is what I have done and the precautions that I take and will take. These are the same precautions I currently use during our influenza seasons, except for the mask and gloves.:
1) NO HANDSHAKING! Use a fist bump, slight bow, elbow bump, etc.
2) Use ONLY your knuckle to touch light switches. elevator buttons, etc.. Lift the gasoline dispenser with a paper towel or use a disposable glove.
3) Open doors with your closed fist or hip - do not grasp the handle with your hand, unless there is no other way to open the door. Especially important on bathroom and post office/commercial doors.
4) Use disinfectant wipes at the stores when they are available, including wiping the handle and child seat in grocery carts.
5) Wash your hands with soap for 10-20 seconds and/or use a greater than 60% alcohol-based hand sanitizer whenever you return home from ANY activity that involves locations where other people have been.
6) Keep a bottle of sanitizer available at each of your home's entrances. AND in your car for use after getting gas or touching other contaminated objects when you can't immediately wash your hands.
7) If possible, cough or sneeze into a disposable tissue and discard. Use your elbow only if you have to. The clothing on your elbow will contain infectious virus that can be passed on for up to a week or more!
What I have stocked in preparation for the pandemic spread to the US:
1) Latex or nitrile latex disposable gloves for use when going shopping, using the gasoline pump, and all other outside activity when you come in contact with contaminated areas.
Note: This virus is spread in large droplets by coughing and sneezing. This means that the air will not infect you! BUT all the surfaces where these droplets land are infectious for about a week on average - everything that is associated with infected people will be contaminated and potentially infectious. The virus is on surfaces and you will not be infected unless your unprotected face is directly coughed or sneezed upon. This virus only has cell receptors for lung cells (it only infects your lungs) The only way for the virus to infect you is through your nose or mouth via your hands or an infected cough or sneeze onto or into your nose or mouth.
2) Stock up now with disposable surgical masks and use them to prevent you from touching your nose and/or mouth (We touch our nose/mouth 90X/day without knowing it!). This is the only way this virus can infect you - it is lung-specific. The mask will not prevent the virus in a direct sneeze from getting into your nose or mouth - it is only to keep you from touching your nose or mouth.
3) Stock up now with hand sanitizers and latex/nitrile gloves (get the appropriate sizes for your family). The hand sanitizers must be alcohol-based and greater than 60% alcohol to be effective.
4) Stock up now with zinc lozenges. These lozenges have been proven to be effective in blocking coronavirus (and most other viruses) from multiplying in your throat and nasopharynx. Use as directed several times each day when you begin to feel ANY "cold-like" symptoms beginning. It is best to lie down and let the lozenge dissolve in the back of your throat and nasopharynx. Cold-Eeze lozenges is o

ne brand available, but there are other brands available.
I, as many others do, hope that this pandemic will be reasonably contained, BUT I personally do not think it will be. Humans have never seen this snake-associated virus before and have no internal defense against it. Tremendous worldwide efforts are being made to understand the molecular and clinical virology of this virus. Unbelievable molecular knowledge about the genomics, structure, and virulence of this virus has already been achieved. BUT, there will be NO drugs or vaccines available this year to protect us or limit the infection within us. Only symptomatic support is available.
I hope these personal thoughts will be helpful during this potentially catastrophic pandemic. You are welcome to share this email. Good luck to all of us! Jim
James Robb, MD FCAP, UCSD

📝 Post "ne brand available, but there are other brands…" published, discuss!

Lifehack: if you want to build a quality pipeline for the next round, it may make sense to wait for your competitors to start raising. Then every fund really interested in the field will come calling

#фаге

One thing I have constantly been noticing in the past year is how pervasive the duality of chaos-order is in the world.

At most fundamental, chaos = things change; order = things stay the same.

Life itself is built on architecture which balances on the knife's edge between order and chaos. The polymer chains from which we are made (DNA, proteins, lipids) all maintain their shape – but just barely. Tiny changes to their environment make them change. This is what enables the processes of life – one protein connects to another, the latter one changes its conformation, and the signal propagates. This is also why our bodies control temperature so precisely – any disconnect from the optimum knocks the system from the edge and makes maintaining the complexity impossible.

Perfect chaos and perfect order appear to be completely useless for life. Perfect chaos is the center of the sun where every femtosecond everything changes and thus complex systems are impossible. Perfect order is a diamond where the carbon atom grid can stay the same for millions of years and thus no processes of any kind are possible.

The interesting thing is that humanity at large thinks order is "Good" and chaos is "Bad." Have you ever heard a politician talk favorably about chaos?

Politicians and businesspeople of course do talk about innovation, creativity, flexibility, change and the like. But they do not make the connection in their mind – laws, rules, order, stability, predictability, financial plans – are the enemy of change. They talk about having innovation without disrupting society. That's like suggesting someone has to be polite AND honest. A team player AND individually responsible. These are incompatible dualities. Every step you take in the direction of one pole is a step away from the other pole. You cannot have both at once.

I think there is a major opportunity for individuals and companies to embrace chaos. Not to tolerate it or "Engineer innovation" or [insert more McKinsey bullshit] but to love and desire it.

Obviously both order and chaos are important, as all dualities are. But there are two major reasons why aggressively embracing chaos is a much better strategy than embracing order:

1. It is contrarian. Our society is so over-engineered towards order that true love for change is rare. So you will have a unique view on the world. Extreme success comes from uniqueness.
2. Unpredictability and eternal change are a more accurate representation of modern reality. We do not live in a Newtonian clockwork universe. We live in a social world where all the interesting problems are governed by chaotic complex dynamic systems.

So:

- be comfortable with losing your identity and changing your mind every day. A lot of people say "Well you said X before and now you say Y so you were wrong." Yes. And tomorrow I will say something completely different from what I say today. And that fluidity is strength whereas your desire for consistency is weakness.
- recognize the fragility of ordered systems and be ready to jump at opportunities when those systems collapse and phase transitions happen. Wars, crises, coronaviruses are all moments when most people panic and the world changes. Love these moments. They are the ones where vast success is found.
- recognize the unpredictability of the world. When you do something and it does not work as predicted that is the default way of things. Being upset because you did not deliver a financial plan as forecasted is fucking dumb. Adapt. Make a new plan (since that is part of the creative process), but expect it to happen differently from how you planned.

Some people will say "Well this is too abstract, can you say what exactly this means, i.e. what do I have to do in a consistently different way from how I do it today?"

This question itself is based on a false premise. You are trying to find a constant ordered pattern of behavior in chaos which is a misunderstanding of what chaos is. If anything, the only "rule" I can suggest is "treat every moment as unique and recognize that rules and conceptual abstractions are always flawed."

Order is fragile. Chaos is not.