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business used to be easiest to comprehend via a) market-based logic of horizontal vs. vertical STRUCTURE, b) professionalization/specialization based FUNCTION c) core competencies based BEHAVIORS this has pretty much collapsed in the last decade
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Structure = sclerosis Functional specialization = bureaucracy competencies = inertial habits "Stack" thinking instead lets technology structure (rather than market structure) drive business org logic
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Companies seem to do well when they identify an entire stack of technologies they are good at (not just point bits) and organize to conform to its logic. There is a "full-stack" dimension of technical specialization that is the spine of the org
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Doesn't this lead to a kind of solutionism?If you start with your "stack" won't you be trying to hit every proverbial nail with that stack? When AI was a hype thing I distinctly remember a lot of companies trying to solve everything via AI, they kinda devolve to service companies
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But maybe that's your point? At the very high end there's definitely deep mind which can go and solve protein folding as well improve chess with the same AI stack
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Yep... when it works it works so well it blows everything else out of the water. When it doesn't at most you get some annoying solutionism derping that goes nowhere. No harm no foul.