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Discworld Rules, & LOTR is brain-rot for technologists

https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/discworld-rules

This post is an extended argument that as a lens for thinking about the world, The Lord of the Rings, is a work that you should “not set aside lightly, but throw across the room with great force,” and that in place of Middle Earth, you should install Terry Pratchett’s Discworld.