Everything Rots

We sometimes wonder why important things fall apart, whether it’s human bodies being destroyed by aging, social movements succumbing to infighting, or software code bases accumulating cruft. A better question to ask is why do some things last as long as they do.Everything rots. Everything complex gradually accumulates errors until it falls apart. The question isn’t whether something will rot, but whether it will grow fast enough that it produces something of value before it collapses.When…