[HN Gopher] Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System (1999)
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       Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System (1999)
        
       Author : Jtsummers
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2025-11-03 19:37 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | Jtsummers wrote:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17764576 - August 2018, 12
       | comments
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13959999 - March 2017, 11
       | comments
        
       | treetalker wrote:
       | Related rules of thumb, from the conclusion of James C. Scott's
       | _Seeing Like a State_ (pages 344-45 in my version):
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       | - Plan on surprises.
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       | - Plan on human inventiveness.
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       | - Favor reversibility.
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       | - Take small steps; stand back; and observe before doing more.
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       | Buffer, optionality, advantageous smallness, and bricolage are
       | our watchwords.
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       | "It is impossible to legislate for the future." --Prince Peter
       | Kropotkin
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       | "The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to keep all the
       | parts." --Aldo Leopold
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       | See also Gall's Law.
        
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