The Pebble and the Avalanche

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by Dr. Moshe Yudkowsky,

author of The Pebble and The Avalanche: How Taking Things Apart Creates Revolutions

 

Fri, 2008-Dec-26, 10:55

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Doorbells

The disaggregation of doorbell handles, in a charity housing project in operation for nearly 500 years:

The handles on the iron doorbells have different shapes such as a cloverleaf and a pine cone -- a holdover from when there was less lighting and residents needed help at night to recognize their doors.
Clearly, not every handle needs to be the same.

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