As organizations grow, they must increasingly become like machines.

Living things can engage with lots of other living, nuanced things around them.

But living things have a fundamental limitation of how many things they can interact with.

Past a certain scale, you simply must reduce nuance to the dimensions that matter most, operationally.

Summary statistics, putting things in buckets, etc.

Scale vs nuance is one of those fundamental tradeoffs that recurs all over the place.