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.

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.

And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.

The young are always coming up with the good ideas; it's because they waste time. They follow their passion and do something, not looking for a payoff, just doing what's interesting.

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

The very long tail of the future is already here.

An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.