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Scale (by Geoffrey West) - Part 29
The topic of scale is important in an existential sense - because human population probably will hit 10 billion soon, but we seem not ready for the…
 • Shrijith Venkatramana
Scale (by Geoffrey West) - Part 28
The life of a company is extremely precarious; practically, it barely floats along - even when it looks like it is succeeding; the founder has a massive…
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Scale (by Geoffrey West) - Part 27
The wealth of a nation these days is mostly obtained via the wealth of organizations residing in it:
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Scale (by Geoffrey West) - Part 26
Business activity cannot be easily classified; one can go deeper and deeper into it - in a fractal like way:
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Scale (by Geoffrey West) - Part 25
Communication increases super linearly with city size:
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Scale (by Geoffrey West) - Part 24
When we invented automobiles - we wouldn’t have had in mind - that we’ll waste a lot of time stuck in traffic and keep traveling from home to work to…
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Scale (by Geoffrey West) - Part 23
Along with the science of cities - there is also a relatively new field of the science of risk management.
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Scale (by Geoffrey West) - Part 22
One of the most important ideas to understand in statistics is Zipf’s law.
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Scale (by Geoffrey West) - Part 21
Social relations of a person also are of a fractal nature, and unfolds hierarchically.
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Scale (by Geoffrey West) - Part 20
In the USA - an interstate highway system was built.
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Scale (by Geoffrey West) - Part 19
There are indeed things like “human universals” due to which no matter how different cities look on the surface - they all scale in similar ways due to…
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Scale (by Geoffrey West) - Part 18
It is easy to get overwhelmed by the surrounding complexity, and refuse to try to recognize commonalities, regularities, and invariants.
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