Sand castles

The best thing I’ve read this week, called Sand Castles in the print version of The New Yorker, about how the semiconductor industry depends on many small artisan-like companies around the world. Gideon Lewis-Kraus: And yet we take it for granted that we can build them. We shouldn’t. The chief determinant of that unlikely success has been not individual genius in the lab, or individual prowess in the boardroom, but collective planning and coördination at a breathtaking scale.