One of the things you'll probably not notice about this article, although you can be certain a lot of effort went into it, is the simplicity of language and sentence structure.

The article describes a hugely complex network of technologies, and also touches on how public policy shapes their use, and yet I bet that as you're reading, you don't struggle at all with understanding what it's talking about.

The writer, Emily S. Rueb, uses short, straightforward sentences, paragraphs of only a sentence or two, utility words instead of flowery language -- and yet the writing doesn't seem at all unrefined. It just seems natural and to the point. That's a real service to the reader, and a real show of talent by the writer.

I guess, like the incredible infrastructure that goes into supplying power to NYC, you know it's working well when you hardly notice it.