"evolution (fit to environment) than engineering (fit to purpose)."

Oh, I absolutely love this lens.

It can be both, I think? Politicians/powerful people take advantage of divisions in society, but often those divisions do exist in a fully-fledged or nascent form for them to exploit.

Killing USAID.

I do it more or less this way - except I keep the root intact until the end. It keeps the onion structurally intact until I'm done with the dicing. At which point, the root takes a single chop to lop off, and then the whole thing scatters into tiny, mostly uniform dices. It's quite satisfying.

Google exposes their reasoning. You can use their new gemini python sdk to get thought traces.