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Big projects tend to swamp small projects somehow. There’s some sort of feedback loop by which the biggest project will mop up disproportionate amounts of all surplus attention/resources.
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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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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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