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Economy, technology, corporations, networks, platforms and how they fit together
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Metcalfe's Law, Conway's Law, and the Networked Firm
Published: at 10:00 AMMetcalfe's Law governs the value of the external network, while Conway's Law governs the structure of the organization that builds and operates it.
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The Hybrid Topology
Published: at 10:00 AMWe are witnessing the collapse of the corporate Tree into the Hybrid Mesh. As intelligence becomes infrastructure, the distance between strategy and execution shrinks to a single, high-density hop.
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Knowledge Diffusion and Network Density
Published: at 10:00 AMFirms do not only coordinate production. They concentrate knowledge. Innovation has historically depended on short-distance diffusion through dense networks.
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Agentic Labour: When Work Becomes Executable
Published: at 06:30 PMSoftware first reduced coordination costs. Now autonomous agents begin to execute parts of labor itself. This changes the structure of work without eliminating it.