Kevin Simler

@vgr @calcsam @britt Without ever thinking carefully about it, I always mapped DNA to a company's culture and decision-making processes.

@vgr @calcsam @britt Those are the bits that get spun off into new organisms, recombined, etc. "Palantir has PayPal DNA," for example.

@KevinSimler @vgr @calcsam I was thinking somewhat of DNA but mostly of competition and niche exploitation. Arguably ecology as much as evo

@britt @KevinSimler @calcsam There is no true evolution model w/o DNA-type mechanism proposal. That type of "model" existed pre-Darwin :)

@vgr @KevinSimler @calcsam Mendel was perfectly serviceable

@britt @KevinSimler @calcsam Nope. Observations !=theory without a mechanism. Tycho Brahe !=Kepler!=Newton.

@vgr @KevinSimler @calcsam how about this instead? Evolutionary biology frames the problem of markets better than economics.

@britt @vgr @KevinSimler how would we tweetstorm this? idea 1: parasitism in organizations/organisms and ecosystems.