Bill Mill
Centralization
What does a turkey on the day before Thanksgiving have to do with globalization? How is Wal-Mart related to the collapse of the Soviet Union? Why is Citibank "too big to fail"?
As humans, we consistently overvalue that which is close and to us and that which is recent. I'll talk about how these locality and recency biases can cause us to build unnecessarily fragile systems, and a few simple things we can do to think better about points of failure.
About Bill Mill:
Bill Mill is a dashing man-about-town with a certain je ne ces quois and serious savoir faire who will do what he will come what may.
