The single most dangerous foolishness that can beset an organization
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I think the next big wave of economic growth is not 3d printing, or AI, or anything like that; it's figuring out how to actually run large organisations effectively. Nick Szabo has a bunch of essays on how it was the printing press which enabled mass literacy, which enabled large bureaucratic organisations. Relatively new in human history.
Email-powered organisations are only a few decades old, and we're still ironing out the kinks.