This is not just true for bureaucracies.

This is kind of a human behavior, right?

Where it's easier to allow the status quo to go on until the easier decision is to put Won't Save Us.

And before we get into this week's episode, I just wanted to note that David

Columbia, who was a guest on episode 67, back in July of

2021, a while ago now, unfortunately died of cancer this past week. And so I just wanted to say that

I think it's a great loss, unfortunately, that we lost David at 60 years old. He was a great

critic of the tech industry, of computation. He wrote a fantastic book about the

politics of Bitcoin that was far ahead of our discussions about crypto in the past couple of

years. He published it back in 2016 that really dug into the libertarian roots of those technologies

and was proven correct when we had this

big wave of interest in cryptocurrencies over the past couple of years. David had been working

on a book called cyber libertarianism for quite a while. You know, I would check in on him every

now and then and see how it was going, and I was looking forward to interviewing him on the podcast

about the book, but unfortunately,

that won't be able to happen now. His editors at the University of Minnesota Press will be

finishing that book, and I will be looking for some way to cover it once it is finally released.

But I just wanted to note David's passing and to say that, you know, it's a real loss for all

of us who care

about critical perspectives on the tech industry because David was often quite ahead of the

curve in his critiques. And they were always very welcome. And it was always great to engage with him.

So rest in peace, David. And if you do want to know more about David and his work, I've linked

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