I had the privilege of traveling to Bangalore this week to work with a Rubicon Project partner.
The defining feature of the city is the traffic, which appears to be controlled by an AI communicating between vehicles via horn. Here's a sample recorded for your pleasure.
And while driving appears totally chaotic and out of control, they tell me that there are not a huge number of accidents, and those that do happen are rather minor in nature.
Perhaps the libertarians are right, and street signs really are bad for your health. Nassim Taleb would agree:
Some libertarians use the example of Drachten, a town in the Netherlands, in which a dream experiment was conducted. All street signs were removed. The deregulation led to an increase in safety, confirming the antifragility of attention at work, how it is whetted by a sense of danger and responsibility.
Media Consumed
- Live Free or Die Hard
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Divergent
- Curb Your Enthusiasm season 3, episodes 1-9
- Girls season 3, episodes 1 and 2
- Some British miniseries about INXS
- Three issues of Business Week
- Alien Collective by Gini Koch
- Antifragile by Nassim Taleb
In Summary
- Miles flown: 19,580
- Hours in the air: 36.5
- Hours awake in India: 36
- Hours of sleep: 22.5