illusion of control

i've been following amanda's blog for a while now. initially, i frequently found her posts boring and focused on things i didn't care about. now, for the last couple of months, i've found her to be incredibly insightful and well written. i dunno if she's changed or i have. this post is perhaps the best of her's that I've read:

The illusion of control. Do yourself a favor and read it.

(It causes me to wonder: I find VD's blog posts horribly illogical and poorly written (in the sense that he usually puts his contradictions in adjacent sentences, rather than separating them by clever misdirections), but AM's well reasoned and well presented. I wonder if this is because I tend to agree with AM's conclusions and don't go searching for mistakes and illogic (or because she tends to write longer posts, and separates her contradictions so the lazy cannot find them). I wonder, yes I do, but I suspect she's just smarter and a better writer than VD, which isn't saying much.)