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Visakan Veerasamy
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Wondering now about the “shitty conference call” class of problem that folks like Genghis Khan might’ve had to deal with. Anybody read anything funny/interesting about olden annoyances?
I imagine it must’ve been frustrating to send out messengers and couriers who literally just disappear and there’s no way of tracking them. Iirc some of the best early emperors/conquerors were basically masters of postal routing and logistics
Packet routing in le olde times
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unusually catty tweet from me but:

when mr rogers said "look for the helpers, there are always people who are helping"

there are also the critics, who are always criticizing the people who are helping
for more nuance – I think Jefferson had a quote that was something like, "resistance on occasion is so critical/important that it should always be kept alive" – and in that sense, critics are important too

but man,,, read the room, lol
"haters gonna hate" – ben franklin
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Visakan Veerasamy
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