This post about a LW meetup that he attended is probably relevant.

I personally find Venkatesh's blog very interesting, but am somewhat skeptical of a lot of his particular ideas. He has very cool posts about some historical things, like the importance of modern shipping containers, history of the corporation, and the importance of barbarians. Those are all seriously awesome, IMO.

I also found that his idea of legibility crystallized something I kind of knew before, but not particularly in words. Basically, you have some stuff that follows rules imposed on it (legible) and things that arose organically with lots of local adaptations, that is much harder to understand. Legibility is in the eye of the beholder, and learning thoughts or having particular ideas can make some things legible that weren't before. If you optimize too hard for one particular thing, you get something that's legible but largely useless, if you don't try to impose order its difficult to manipulate.