Texts like this are like the inverse of gell-mann amnesia, and the best ones (which this is? Idk I’m not that well read to say!) do so w/o degrading into the easier and tedious "we’re all failing and need to do better” conference keynote gimmick simulation of it.

anyway, by which I mean, you read about an area of focus in another field and see the author clearly knows what they are talking about and moreover that the grievances they have align w/ the same grievances you have in your own field

two “fun facts" (my kid picked up that phrase and has been using it arbitrarily, so now I do)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_scramble “Barnes Dances”

I forgot David Byrne wrote about biking, so now that is is on the list of shit to read http://davidbyrne.com/explore/bicycle-diaries/about