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The lesson here is to make compliance easy. It might take more time, money, legwork, and creative energy early on to both design and test a new technology with a wide range of average people. But given that-to invoke Murphy's law-what can go wrong almost always does go wrong at scale, it will be worth it.
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there are certain organizational constraints at scale-ranging from building size to available technologies to safety concerns to intrusiveness-test whether those are negotiable or not in the orig-inal study. If they are non-negotiables but aren't available at scale, then you don't have a scalable idea. This general approach is called "backward induction," and we will take it up again in greater detail in Chapter 5.
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I disagree with his premise that the only ideas worth pursuing are one that scale. I think for many domains (particularly urgent ones for the climate crisis) more emphasis should be placed on scalability of interventions, but scalable interventions introduce weakness into the system. Much like having a monoculture reduces the resilience in a food system. As well as tailoring to the unique environments and populations
— Mar 29, 2025 06:59AM
