Popehat A Group Complaint about Law, Liberty, and Leisure About Free Speech Resources Blogroll Free Speech Criminal Justice Law Politics & Current Events Fun Art Geekery Gaming December 6, 2013 by Clark I have come to identify a pattern that crops up in proposals for business models, social engineering, computer architectures, etc. It is this: instead of paring things down to the minimum (Antoine_de_Saint_Exupery's "nothing left to take away" / Steve Blank's "minimum viable product" ), people propose large steaming piles of things which are (a) incompatible with what came before, and (b) depend on every component working flawlessly. This is, in general, a doomed strategy – which you will note if you have ever had the misfortune to liked your healthcare plan and chose to keep it. Some crazy proposed business models operate this way ("we teach the natives to harvest rain forest f...