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»Fast learns, slow remembers. Fast proposes, slow disposes. Fast is discontinuous, slow is continuous. Fast and small instructs slow and big by accrued innovation and by occasional revolution. Slow and big controls small and fast by constraint and constancy. Fast gets all our attention, slow has all the power.
All durable dynamic systems have this sort of structure. It is what makes them adaptable and robust.«
Lately, I’ve found myself repeatedly coming back to the concept of Pace Layering as laid out by Stewart Brand years ago in an essay for the Journal of Design and Science (JoDS), a sadly discontinued joint venture of the MIT Media Lab and the MIT Press.