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I'm not sure that there is an inherent tension between scale and trustworthy information systems, but I am confident confident, especially after being in the belly of the beast for as long as I was at Facebook, that there is an inherent tension between trustworthy information and centralized governance systems at a scale.

SW: You have said that creativity is an import-export game, not a creation game. If the most original and effective ideas are more often borrowed than created, how can companies foster innovation?

RB: We all specialize, for reasons of efficiency and productivity, and are often blind to good ideas that occur in other places. When someone brings us

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Die Hard asks naive but powerful questions: If you have to get from A to B —that is, from the 31st floor to the lobby, or from the 26th floor to the roof—why not blast, carve, shoot, lockpick, and climb your way there, hitchhiking rides atop elevator cars and meandering through the labyrinthine, previously unexposed back-corridors of the built... See more

The negative consequences of forcing the forests to become legible to their planners didn’t become obvious until after second rotation of trees to be planted, about a century later. This is important to note: the first-order effects, what happens right away, are often beneficial; it’s the second and third-order effects of forcing legibility onto an... See more

“We will go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost effective.” -Kurt Vonnegut