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So if you have 2 projects at 60%, 40%, then they will commandeer surpluses in a 80-20 ratio. The big will grow bigger, and do so faster over time.
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Efficiencies of attention scale. Focus and resource concentration are a result rather than cause of project scale/scope.
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On the flip side, the project that consistently gets less than it’s share of surplus resources will starve and die, growing relatively ABD absolutely smaller. All non-trivial projects depend on access to available surpluses to deal with uncertainty and entropy.
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This surplus is how projects get their supply of luck. All non-trivial projects need non-zero luck to succeed. Bigger projects get luckier and do so faster and faster. Smaller projects get unluckier till they die. Serendipity vs zemblanity.
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yeah, it's the trouble with the "unreasonable effectiveness of small optimizations" — they're unreasonably effective in part because most orgs are unable to do them
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