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...le. People focus too much on the capture, which is zero sum and greedy, not the value creation. Finance focuses on the capture. In the limit this leads to over-extraction and killing the source of the value. Prosocial things focus on the creati...
...ness does not require maximizing extraction in the short term. You can maximize value creation and take a small part of a grown pie. People taking a one ply approach think it's mainly about extracting value. People taking a multi-ply approach s...
...at's why the beancounters win. They can point to concrete things to explain the value creation. The emergent value feels abstract, like woo.
Closed systems have sub-linear user value creation. Open systems have super-linear value creation. But open systems have a privacy problem; the swarm of untrusted components can't collaborate safely.
...t its soul in the mass produced era. Optimized for extraction, mass market, not value creation. Treating users the same, not leaning into what they actually individually want. LLMs provide the opportunity to change this. Humanistic computing. H...
...mine: "you must create thick boundaries[ajg] between the sacred and the profane value creation (ideation, generativity, divergence, etc) is sacred value capture (monetization, politics, operations, etc) is profane we need both, but the moment t...
...or of leverage. Abstraction is what allows a unit of code to have more than 1:1 value creation. It can do this in the realm of Computer Science because computer science is perfectly precise. Computers do precisely what you tell them (modulo cos...
... themselves, lifting up and supporting others. Surviving is investing energy in value creation internally to the level where the fire doesn't go out. If it goes out, the entity dies and there's no more value it will create for itself or anyone ...
Value creation is intrinsically wasteful because it's unpredictable; the only way to check is to guess. You can't optimize it beyond a certain point without killing...
...anization. The activities the organization does that impacts the outer world is value creation. The organization becomes a hyper engaged universe that folds into itself, that only makes sense within it. The inner world of an organization is its...
...ative approach? If you succeed, there's a more open ecosystem of creativity and value creation. If you fail, it's the same as if you hadn't tried. (Note that this argument smuggles in an infinity, because of the implied omnipotence of the singl...
...pically assumed to be "blue"--that is, wide open for positive sum discovery and value creation. But imagine you come across a vast, valuable looking ocean that is totally empty. It's tempting to think "wow, everyone else is missing the possibil...
...an asymptote where all energy goes into coordination and none goes into net-new value creation. In contrast, automatically-cohering systems instead have a compounding loop of value. The faster they go, the more value that is created, at an acce...