The choice of image was probably partly inspired by the example of dinosaurs and mammals, which I think reduces how struck we should be by any match-up.
If I may ask, do you have a preferred email address through which I can ask you some questions which wouldn’t quite work out as comments to the blog-post?
The choice of image was probably partly inspired by the example of dinosaurs and mammals, which I think reduces how struck we should be by any match-up.
Very true—see the more explicit parallels to ecosystems in my earlier piece on scaling companies; www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/03/17/go-corporate-or-go-home/
It explains why companies need to end up bureaucratic when they scale, and on the way it talks about the analogy to living systems in various ways.
If I may ask, do you have a preferred email address through which I can ask you some questions which wouldn’t quite work out as comments to the blog-post?
Google’s email service, with my lesswrong username.