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Thought: Not all dependencies are moving parts, but every moving part creates a dependency. Dependencies introduce potential points of failure where none otherwise exist.

Thought: The less technology involved, the better the tool.

Related: The tool with the least moving parts will last the longest.

Also related: Digital bits are moving parts.

Thought: Drivers in California rarely signal. Yet, my rental car steering wheel vibrated with warning every time I even touched a lane marker without doing so like it was scolding me.

Do their cars not scold them? Why not? I wish they would.