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Geoffrey B. West: The Universal Laws of Growth and Pace

Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking

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The Economics of Scaling

When you are part of a network, you have to be somewhere. The bigger the city, the less number of gas stations you need per capita. There's an economy of scale meaning there's no difference between cities in different countries.

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