If you read one piece of content in its entirety on the web today, make it Clay Shirky's recent post called The Collapse of Complex Business Models, a brilliant meditation on how systems can hoick themselves into states so complex they cannot respond gracefully to changing conditions.

h/t to BoingBoing where Cory Doctorow uses the piece as a lens into the web/entertainment industry (where its lessons are already painfully obvious.)

But I think those interested in politics and rebooting education will also find much here to consider.