IMHO useful thoughts: Pournelle's Iron law of bureaucracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle.27s_iron_law_of_bureaucracy https://en.wikip

IMHO useful thoughts: Pournelle's Iron law of bureaucracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle.27s_iron_law_of_bureaucracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle.27s_... Buffet's institutional imperative: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1989.html https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1989.html Ousterhout's most important component of evolution: https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/sayings.php https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/sayings.php Leopold Kohr and Bertrand de Jouvenel had more detailed pertinent observations and thoughts.