Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.

I work in a "you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours" kind of a place.

Well, here's what you can do, and that's about it.

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.

The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.

Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment.

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.