The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it.

Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak.

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

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.

An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.

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

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.