7. The 15-minute city is a dead end (blogs.lse.ac.uk)

The notion of the 15-minute city, in which people can work, shop, play and go to school within a small radius of their home, has attracted some urban planners. But now more than ever, argues Edward Glaeser (Harvard), it should be recognised as a dead end which would stop cities from fulfilling their true role as

16. Back end is full of hidden workflows (unmeshed.io)

What starts as request handling gradually becomes retries, queues, callbacks, and coordination spread across the stack. Here is why that happens, and what changes when the workflow becomes explicit.

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