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Any plot of land contains natural features that can contribute or detract from the property as a whole. They include: elevation and slope; the presence of rocks, boulders, trees or underbrush; and the plot's proximity to electrical line, phone lines roadways or waterways.

WITHIN THESE LAYERS, WHERE DO WE FIND THE #AGEOFACQUERIUS?

Largest span of the suspended reef arch bridge

This story has been getting tons of attention over the last two weeks. Lots of folks seem to be a bit surprised by the rapid loss of these dunes. But the fact of the matter is that this happens all the time. Our coastal systems are completely out of equilibrium. We are trying to build dunes where dunes do not want to be! Sea level rise moves shorelines landward, but we don't allow that to happen anymore. We are trying to hold the coast in place. The nearshore is over-steepening. The beaches are much smaller, on average, and they disappear more quickly than they used to. You can't expect to drop in some sand dunes on this out-of-whack coast and have them last. We have seen the same thing happen in so many places: Montauk, NY to NE Florida. If we want dunes, we will need to take a step back from the oceanfront. In most developed shorelines, it will become impossible to maintain those dunes unless you have the sand and the money to spend hundreds of millions of dollars maintaining a very wide beach in front of the dunes. #PSDS #coastaldunes #maladaptation https://lnkd.in/e6P8CuX9

What can we remove? Our bias is to always add more. More rules, more procedures, more code, more features, more stuff. Interdependencies proliferate, and gradually strangle us. Systems want to grow and grow, but without pruning, they collapse. Slowly, then spectacularly. When a piece of trash drifts across the beach, it is our duty to pick it up so the next person can enjoy a pristine shoreline. When a thousand pieces litter the beach, it is too late. We can only lament the landscape. That’s just how beaches are now. A good system is designed to be periodically cleared of cruft. It has a built-in counterbalance. Without this pressure, our bias drives us to add band-aid after band-aid, until the only choice is to destroy the whole system and start from scratch. Why is it so much easier to add than to remove? Maybe because we attach our identity to what is visible. But there is a difference between the ornamentation that defines our style and the vestigial burdens we carry. Remember those who did the invisible work of removing. Their legacy was not to build a sand castle, but to care for the beautiful beach on which we play.

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