much of human collaboration scales sublinearly but it's possible to scale superlinearly

created 2020-06-29 · edited 2020-06-29 · open in Roam

it is, I think, common in many kinds of organizations to simultaneously feel like you're being paid less than you're worth, but more than the amount of value you're providing
- (I'm thinking about software/startups in particular; there are probably industries where this isn't so)
- because the organizational structure isn't adequately able to access the amount of value you COULD provide
- context: some stuff that came up on July 16th, 2020 call with George Woodliff-Stanley, part 2 at ~2h30

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much of human collaboration scales sublinearly but it's possible to scale superlinearly
- related to the sublinear part - vetocracy as the awful endgame of bureaucracy
  - astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ezra-klein-on-vetocracy
    - > The crypto solution, which has yet to fully mature, is something like “create structures which it’s impossible for anyone, including the creator, to change”. Seems like a pretty drastic solution. But what would a better one look like?
      - relates to crypto no-trust systems won't be enough