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Pournelle's Iron law of bureaucracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle.27s_...
Buffet's institutional imperative: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1989.html
Ousterhout's most important component of evolution: https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/sayings.php
Leopold Kohr and Bertrand de Jouvenel had more detailed pertinent observations and thoughts.
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Pournelle's Iron law of bureaucracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle.27s_...
Buffet's institutional imperative: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1989.html
Ousterhout's most important component of evolution: https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/sayings.php
Leopold Kohr and Bertrand de Jouvenel had more detailed pertinent observations and thoughts.