In the government there is no time to prevent problems by spending a little now. We are too busy dealing with the large problems (clearly due to our predecessors) whereupon they waited until it’s too late and there’s no way  for us to recover from those problems, except to shift it forward unto the next [...]

This sums up a lot, but as you can see, it ignores a lot of details.  The key to designing good diagrams is being selective. What do you want to show, versus all the other stuff you ignore.  Most of humanity and it’s accoutrements are ignored here…

Should the government experiment with social media and web technology? The question I always have is “who does the government report to” ? The naive, pat answer is: “the people”. The problem is that people have to mobilize and centralize their opinions and power, in order to effect this power to change government. The lag time, and [...]