Scale Theory
Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies
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Legibility is a concept from James Scott’s seminal work, Seeing Like a State . It’s not a book that lends itself well to one-sentence summaries, but my attempt is “we assume that only what we can measure is real and everything that is real can be measured.”
The book is titled Seeing Like a State , because the idea of legibility as I’m using it here ... See more
The book is titled Seeing Like a State , because the idea of legibility as I’m using it here ... See more
taylorpearson.me • The Illegible Margin: Profiting From the Gap Between the Map and the Territory
We summarize these observations[e.] in the Non-additivity Theorem, alternatively known as the Climax Design Theorem: A LARGE SYSTEM, PRODUCED BY EXPANDING THE DIMENSIONS OF A SMALLER SYSTEM, DOES NOT BEHAVE LIKE THE SMALLER SYSTEm
John Gall • Systemantics. The Systems Bible
Things don’t “scale” and generalize, which is why I have trouble with intellectuals talking about abstract notions. A country is not a large city, a city is not a large family, and, sorry, the world is not a large village.