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Politics emerges when two or more entities try to coordinate. They can never be fully aligned. Since they are two distinct entities, there's always something that is good for one but bad for the other. That fun...
To coordinate you need some static touch points between entities[eh] Some frameworks and scaffolding. Those have to be pinned down as nucleation sites for collabor...
"Perfect" is a smuggled infinity.[ng][nh] A smuggled infinity narrative is useful to get coordination on big projects. Even if the vision is impossible because it has a smuggled infinity, it still does align a lot of disparate actors and allows building things that wouldn't be possible without that
...ople move, the more coordination cost there is. You have to chase your peers to coordinate to get them to do something that coheres. People are chasing you as you chase others. … ad infinitum. This goes up more than linearly, because often ...
...teract with another person's thing in some way. Instead of two users needing to coordinate to find overlap to work together, everyone can just get the default and unless they change it it will be compatible.
...s better. But bigger can make you more likely to die: More sclerotic. Harder to coordinate and adapt, since coordination costs rise superlinearly with size. Trapped by a Lilliputian web. More leverage. Leverage allows efficiency… but also m...
Coordination is about creating momentum. By default, the sum of chaotic movement of components is zero. No net motion of the system happens. When you get some subset of the components even somewhat aligned, the force nets out to something non-zero. That non-zero force points in a particular directio
...in userland. That can be great, but then if multiple things in userland need to coordinate they can take less for granted and figuring out how to coordinate might be hard. In general it's a good idea to have at least a conceptual understand...