Jay Lake, Permanent Fatal Errors

I just finished reading the short story Permanent Fatal Errors, by Jay Lake (available free at the title link). It's typical Lake in some respects: what you're interested in as a skiffy reader may not be congruent with the point Jay's making. The story's pretty straightforward, but the setting is interesting: a starship entirely crewed by Heinlein heroes.

And what is a starship entirely crewed by Heinlein heroes like? Desperately dysfunctional. Jay does an excellent job of showing how and why it would be dysfunctional, in an "I'm so competent no mess I can make could possibly be so bad I can't fix it, so let's see what disasters we can cause and recover from, before the ennui of our insanely long lives drives us nuts!" way. Good points all around, and a fun read. Quick, too.