The Seed Beneath the Snow

Jimmy Miller wrote a lovely response to Sean Goedecke’s “ Seeing like a Software Company ,” which you know is itself riffing on James C. Scott’s Seeing Like a State . I loved Jimmy’s response, and it felt to me like it walked right up to the edge of a different conclusion, but didn’t make it all of the way there. I want to directly point at and name the thing I see in Jimmy’s response: Jimmy is…