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At Maggie Daley Park, one of the project’s defining challenges was to find a material that could sit above an underground parking garage, which could only support a limited weight. In addition, the park’s design brief called for “a complex landscape that offers experiential range” with varied character, scale, and seasonal attributes. To build any kind of varied topography and support the planned winter “ice ribbon” and play spaces, it was necessary to use a fill material that was lighter than soil. Geofoam, at approximately 1/100 the density of dirt, was the obvious solution.
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My early brush with a genuine bubble caused me to formulate some guiding principles that carried me through the next 50-odd years:
**It’s not what you buy, it’s what you pay that counts.**
**Good investing doesn’t come from buying good things, but from buying things well.**
**There’s no asset so good that it can’t become overpriced and thus dangerous, and there are few assets so bad that they can’t get cheap enough to be a bargain.**
On Bubble Watch
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If you are designing for 8 demands it’s likely that 6 are easy, 7 requires serious contemplation, and that doing all 8 results in a worse system overall. Key lesson from system-design legend [Jeff Dean](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//people/jeff/stanford-295-talk.pdf).
The Napkin Math Methodology for System Design
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