The article didn't make for pleasant reading, especially for people like myself who think that efficient railway services and other forms of well-run mass transport are a subtle but nifty measure of a country's level of civilization and, in most cases, of its social and economic fabric.
These inline chatting features make Front much more informal and I think more efficient as well.
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Think how "efficient" the "delivery" of spiritual guidance could be if clerics had "access" to Udacity's software or could reach out to their flocks through MOOCs?
Think super-efficient power conversion chips inside your mobile phone charger, laptop power supply, lighting systems and other mains-powered devices.
"Bill Clinton, Bob Rubin, Larry Summers … we all thought the efficient allocation of capital was a good thing," he says.
Hence the use of puppies, which presumably were thought an efficient form of breast pump.
You might have thought that efficient markets, armed with both the experience of history and the valuation tools discussed earlier in this chapter, would prick them before they are formed.
That's the hyper-neurotic end of the scale, but consider the life-and-death impact in an operating theatre: one surgeon thinks being efficient is synonymous with being an abject arsehole, the team's performance plummets and the patient dies.
Moreover, he thinks the efficient causes are all motions, so the search for causes becomes the search for motions and mechanisms.
