Unintended Consequences - Essays 26 to 50

In an interconnected world, we need to learn about systems, complexity, and unintended consequences. Those who do that can thrive. Those who don’t risk ruin. I help my readers gain that knowledge, new perspectives, and frameworks to evaluate decisions.

This edition includes the following essays:

• Vultures and Ventures (Structure of Growth and Decline)
• Victims of Fashion
• Systems for Spreading
• The Long Reach of Short-Term Interests
• Uyghurs in Xinjiang - Onward to the Inevitable
• The Difficulties of Elimitigation
• Autonomous Vehicles and Scaling Risk
• College Admissions Scandal
• Against the Natural Order of Things (Tech Change)
• What is Emergence? (Part 1)
• Who Plays the Stradivarius in Interstellar Space?
• Universal Basic Income (Part 1)
• Universal Basic Income (Part 2)
• The Clip (What's the Right Amount of Context?)
• The Cobra Effect (Part 2)
• The Emergence of Omniscience (Part 1 - Images)
• A Very Different Funeral (for Deng Xiaoping)
• Why Are There So Many Protests in Hong Kong?
• Prester John and the Long History of Disinformation
• The Opioid Crisis (and addiction-based business models)
• Do We Create Shoplifters?
• Selecting the Scalable Snapshot
• Basic Values
• Incentives
• The 70th anniversary of the PRC