Inefficiency & frictions are necessary for a healthy system A resilient ecosystem requires redundancy --- The traditional, "inefficient" workplace, rich with informal chats, redundant roles, and overlapping responsibilities, is a biodiverse ecosystem. It is resilient, adaptive, and self-sustaining. The hyper-optimized, automated workplace is a monoculture farm—incredibly productive at one thing in the short term, but sterile, brittle, and vulnerable to collapse when conditions change. Heidegger, in "The Question Concerning Technology" (1954), warned that the essence of modern technology is a way of "enframing" the world, turning everything (rivers, forests, people) into a "standing-reserve"— a resource to be optimized and controlled. In *The Death and Life of Great American Cities* (1961), Jane Jacobs championed the complex, messy, organic "street ballet" of dense, mixed-use neighborhoods against the top-down, rationalized, and sterile vision of urban renewal planners. True resilience and vitality come not from top-down efficiency but from complex, bottom-up human interaction. --- Beane's central **Threat** is a perfect case study of this. The novice is no longer a person to be developed but an inefficient variable in a system to be optimized, a part of the standing-reserve. (--[[The Skill Code -- How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines]]) [[追求极致效能清除"低效"人口不可取]]