Pace Layering

Packy McCormick's Not Boring essay "Pace Layering" argues that thinking in layers that move at different speeds helps people keep new developments in proper context. Drawing on Stewart Brand's 2000 book The Clock of the Long Now, the essay describes civilization as layers that range from fast fashion to slow nature, with the slower layers holding the power and the faster layers driving innovation. McCormick says that fast experiments at the top layer, including crypto, can improve the layers beneath them, and that strong institutions are important because governance is stickier than fashion.