I have this pet theory that solving big, seemingly intractable problems (education, agriculture, business) requires 'intelligent grunts'—people with acute sociological imagination and strong technical skills who aren’t ashamed to do things that don’t scale (to borrow Paul Graham)

Here's how you use a carrot to hurt a bunny:

Sometimes I wonder if necessary evil is just a temporary lack of better alternatives. Framing it as 'necessary' lets us feel better about the poverty of our imagination that makes us only see the suboptimal choices. And 'evil' is nothing but our own fallibilitity, alienated.

Their firsthand engagement with complexity makes them immune to simplistic narratives and one-size-fits-all fixes. They don't cower to sanctified best practices, nor do they feel intimidated by the academic wisdom of armchair experts.

My take: Pancasila was conceived to act like civil engineering principles, while ideologies are just architectural styles. Modern ideologies have a tendency to slip into extremism, and Pancasila is a safety mechanism to ensure that exstremism of any kind can never prevail.

For an investor to have no dry powder when the market is down is like a kid showing up at an arcade with no money—all he can do is sightseeing and wishing that he hadn't spent that money on a candy.

RT @ObiWan_Catnobi: Tbh, kejauhan. Pendukung & penyokong program mencret bersama gratis itu harus bisa mendefinisikan problem riil yg mau…

Without clear goals, evaluating MBG’s success becomes like a military operation with no defined victory conditions—every setback is dismissed, every critique met with shifting objectives, and the mission drags on indefinitely with no way to declare success or failure.

Or worse— have they converged on an equilibrium where suffering is the dominant strategy, and any deviation feels like a defection from their own identity?

Mari terus bicara terus tentang ini sampai presiden tak punya pilihan kecuali bertindak

In what phase are you in your relationship with the new president?

Ozymandias, but make it about IKN:

@kpgnj bottom? he's just getting started

I get that it must be hard for Prabowo loyalists to watch their hero stumble at every turn in his first year as president, but trying to distance Prabowo from his government's failures is like blaming the stage crew for a bad play while ignoring the director who called the shots