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When we wander around the streets of our sleepy little hollow, we like to stop and chat. Much of the chat, of late, has been about trucks and what we can do about them. Often, we share a laugh about the latest thing on the blog.

Occasionally, our friends and neighbours express confusion about the blog. How do they make a comment? It seems all Goggle-password-this and OpenID-that. Besides, we don't all have a suite of techno trousers in our closets and the interwebs is a strange and foreign land to some.

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This is not my beautiful street! How did we get here?

Sometimes decisions made in our streets, in our cities and in our nation leave many of us scratching our heads and asking: Who decided that? What were they thinking? And, how on earth did we get to this dumb place?

Economist, Alfred E Kahn, may have a partial answer in what he called "the tyranny of small decisions". While Kahn was talking of market economics, these “small decision effects” apply equally to the wider environment in which we all live.

We see it all around us, from the gradual loss of Moore Park parklands through encroachment by commercial interests to the long-standing malnourishment blighting NSW’s public transport infrastructure. It's death by a thousand cuts.

Likewise, much of the current confusion and distress surrounding the COFA campus construction issues can possibly be traced to decisions that were never consciously made, but simply resulted from a series of small decisions, Kahn’s so-called tyranny.

Broadly, Kahn’s premise goes something like this...