Too many resources can smother a thing.
They create eddy currents of possibility.
Swirls of coordination costs.
Instead of focused, laminar flow, you get turbulent flow.
It's much harder for anything to cohere and then be built on top of.
From other episodes
- Centralization emerges, naturally, because bilateral coordination is super-linearly expensive.2026-04-13
- What is the strategic staying power of our Google Accounts?2026-04-13
- Coordination cost needs to be paid if there isn't a schelling point.2026-04-06
- Asking for permission changes the coordination speed by an order of magnitude.2026-04-06
- A lot of coordination costs inside of organizations are not about "is this a feature we want to support long term" but "is this worth even spending the time to think about?"2026-04-06
- An open system that has meteoric growth is the best.2026-04-06
- I was talking to a friend about an upcoming paper that digs into optimal organizations by experimenting with agent swarms.2026-03-30
- There's an optimal amount of information sharing in an org.2026-03-17