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Original layout
The original elementary school. Found somewhere in Maine.
'Optimized'
Left: Optimized for minimizing traffic flow bewteen classes and material usage. Right: Also optimized for minimizing fire escape paths.
Evolving Floorplans
joelsimon.net
But we in the Handdara don't want answers. It's hard to avoid them, but we try to."
"Faxe, I don't think I understand."
"Well, we come here to the Fastnesses mostly to learn what questions not to ask."
"But you're the Answerers!"
"You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Foretelling?"
"No-"
"To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question."
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
Nick Rowe memorably described [finance as magic](http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2010/01/finance-as-magic.html). The analogy I would choose is finance as placebo. Financial systems are sugar pills by which we collectively embolden ourselves to bear economic risk. As with any good placebo, we must never understand that it is just a bit of sugar. We must believe the concoction we are taking to be the product of brilliant science, the details of which we could never understand. The financial placebo peddlers make it so.
Why Is Finance So Complex?
Nick Rowe
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