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494. Why Do Most Ideas Fail to Scale?

Freakonomics Radio

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Scaling

Voltage drops are what happens when the great electric charge of potential that drives people and organizations dissipates. The chef versu ingredients issue would seem to be at play in almost any scaling project, including your chicago heights early childhood centre. So how do you get around that? There are different actors within every idea. And it got me thinking, you know, humans just don't scale. Think about smart technology. People like me are so dumb that we undo the original setting so much that all the good stuff is gone,. because the engineers assumed it was bak. Essentially, this unswervingly rational being, when really you're selling that product into a bunch of homer sim

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