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• chrisandchris 3y ago
  From what I read here on HN, this book describes Google.
  • Jensson 3y ago
    Every organization is inflexible, you need a swarm of organization to be flexible. That is the main difference between the state and the private sector, the private sector is a herd.
    • BurningFrog 3y ago
      in this metaphor, every organization is a state.
      • Jensson 3y ago
        You mean every state is an organization so they share many traits that all organizations have? I don't see why you would go the other way.
        • BurningFrog 3y ago
          I phrased that badly. I was trying to say that any monopoly organization will have similar dysfunctions that a state has. My thought is that states aren't dysfunctional primarily because they're states, but because they're monopolies.