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I find it interesting that as our societies have become increasingly complex and we have organically implemented what we think is an efficient division of labor

I find it interesting that as our societies have become increasingly complex and we have organically implemented what we think is an efficient division of labor, we have ended up with people not only specializing across multiple sectors, but also in different layers of abstraction within the same sector. We have done all of this without even realizing that we were pushing people towards a different interface of the problem, but the same problem nonetheless.

zharknado 3y ago
Not sure I can prove it, but my intuition is that this actually flows in the opposite direction, i.e. we organically discover efficient organizational buckets and then ascribe boundaries and labels to those clusterings. I.e. the interface isn’t an objective fact, it’s a normative way of framing a boundary.