We can talk about how to scale all we want, but in practice, a lot of people are ambivalent towards scaling. Although we have a cultural bias that ‘all growth is good growth’, it’s not actually true. Unless you’re careful, growth can take you places you don’t want to be. To show how this works Read more
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[In the last post I alluded to the difficulties Makers have in scaling their businesses, but I thought the concept deserved its own post.] You need a teeny tiny amount of math for this post. Not a ton, not even any numbers. Just a concept. Linear growth= Growth along one metric. Exponential growth= Growth along Read more
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka” but “That’s funny…” —Isaac Asimov I’m fascinated by how things work. So I’m always making little guesses about how things will work out, based on my theories. In school, we were taught to call these hypotheses because theories Read more
