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As startups grow there is extremely strong pull into what I call the death spiral of bullshit.
More people -> more teams -> more buy-in required -> more meetings -> being persuasive rewarded more than building -> builders leave -> nothing gets done
Austen Allredx.comThe spread and exploitation of new technologies depends on the construction of relevant networked infrastructure. And bubbles are often the only way to weave the network together before the investments pay off. It’s in the nature of infrastructures to be all or nothing, and bubbles allow capital gains to replace potential dividends as the bits are
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The value (“fitness”) of a given combination of building blocks often cannot be predicted by a summing up of values assigned to the component blocks. This nonlinearity (commonly called epistasis in genetics) leads to co-adapted sets of blocks (alleles) that serve to bias sampling and add additional layers to the hierarchy.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
“Tensegrity.”
Neal Stephenson • Seveneves: A Novel
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