Scale
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Our daughters have learned to measure their worth by the wrong
scale.
It's really a question of
scale.
Now, to give you an idea of scale, if the needle was shown here, it would be too big.
Now, I really believe that we can transform education, both in quality and
scale
and access, through technology.
No, this is really important to have this sense of
scale.
And we could do that by perfectly sensible things like conservation, and wind power, nuclear power and coal to CO2 capture, which are all things that are ready for giant
scale
deployment, and work.
To give you a sense of scale, the largest panel is about two meters high.
Recognizing that Africa has grassroot-level leadership, we simply developed a model to bring the professional management and investment to
scale
to these grassroot leaders.
So following that conversation with my daughter, and seeing the absence of inflation in the face of money-printing, and knowing that international aid payments were falling at just the wrong time, this made me wonder: Could we match but just on a much grander
scale?
That is unlikely for the second reason: the
scale
of the money that would be printed under this scheme.
And by the way, the
scale
on these things is pretty large.
Autonomy allows the transportation network to scale, and I actually think it makes the aircraft safer.
So the question we really need to ask ourselves is, why, given the devastating impact of these diseases to the individual, never mind the
scale
of the societal problem, why are there no effective treatments?
What's happened is a particle accelerator at a huge, huge
scale.
It was on those two ideas, Henderson's idea of increasing returns to
scale
and experience, and Porter's idea of the value chain, encompassing heterogenous elements, that the whole edifice of business strategy was subsequently erected.
Now what that really meant in terms of the Porter-Henderson framework was the collapse of certain kinds of economies of
scale.
It's happening because transaction costs are plummeting and because
scale
is polarizing.
The scaling in the opposite direction, towards things like big data, drive the structure of business towards the creation of new kinds of institutions that can achieve that
scale.
That is the fragmentation of
scale
because the very small can substitute for the traditional corporate
scale.
And we need industry structures that will accommodate very, very different motivations, from the amateur motivations of people in communities to maybe the social motivations of infrastructure built by governments, or, for that matter, cooperative institutions built by companies that are otherwise competing, because that is the only way that they can get to
scale.
In hyena societies, adult males are actually the lowest on the social
scale.
But because of the country's sheer
scale
and status as a rising superpower, the needs of its population have created an opportunity for truly compelling impact.
But it has never reached truly transformative scale, likely because traditional education systems in other tech centers of the world are far more advanced and far more stable.
Let's talk about what
scale
looks like at Twitter.
Given the
scale
that Twitter is at, a one-in-a-million chance happens 500 times a day.
It's the same for other companies dealing at this sort of
scale.
The sheer
scale
of what we're dealing with makes for a challenge.
It's just that for those of us dealing with scale, for those of us tasked with keeping people safe, we have to assume the worst will happen, because for us, a one-in-a-million chance is pretty good odds.
So just to make sure, I insisted that we build a mock-up in wood, at scale, of the railing and the sea wall.
And at the grand scale, time lapse allows us to see our planet in motion.
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