Nimayi N Dixit

We’ve been covering the Jones Act recently on Project Puraka. A law that was designed to promote a robust domestic shipbuilding and operating industry by giving it a monopoly over shipments between U.S. ports. This was seen as vital to American national security based on experiences the country

There is a characteristic of complex systems that people who study systems dynamics like to point out a lot. It’s called non-linearity — the idea that small perturbations can often lead to major consequences in systems that are sufficiently complex. The “butterfly effect” is a popular thought experiment about non-linearity.

In June of this year, a tanker truck carrying 8,500 gallons of gasoline on Interstate-95 in Philadelphia lost control at an exit ramp resulting in a crash that destroyed a section of the overpass; the driver lost his life in the accident. The repair was originally estimated to take