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The single most dangerous foolishness that can beset an organization (siderea.livejournal.com)
20 points by dsr_ on March 29, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


This is a really insightful article. A shame it hasn't garnered any discussion, but maybe people feel they don't have much to add.

I think the next big wave of economic growth is not 3d printing, or AI, or anything like that; it's figuring out how to actually run large organisations effectively. Nick Szabo has a bunch of essays on how it was the printing press which enabled mass literacy, which enabled large bureaucratic organisations. Relatively new in human history.

Email-powered organisations are only a few decades old, and we're still ironing out the kinks.


Yellow on purple, how has anyone actually completed this article? The next article should be about the cost of eye strain.


I'm not economist; but have to ask - do economist not already study the cost of information?




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