27
Sep
We inherited incredibly complex systems built by the greatest minds of previous generations. With the fatal arrogance of a teenager that got their heart broken for the first time and thinks no one understands them or has ever felt what they feel, we saw their limitations, pitfalls and compromises, and attribuited them to incompetence or even malice. And promptly dedicated our efforts to reinvent the wheel, because we knew better. We added layer upon layer of complexity, and each time a new model, theory or framework failed us, rather than reevaluating and stepping back, we added a new one. A…