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Voltage drop is shockingly common

Voltage drop is shockingly common

The voltage effect describes what happens when you move from the small to the large. Most ideas experience voltage drops, when a seemingly great idea loses power as it is scaled.

How to fail at scaling

  • You scale a program that was never tested.
  • Humans don’t scale. Any time there is a human at the centre of the program, it will fail.
  • Experts in their field assume that everyone else thinks hyper-rationally as they do, but people seldom think clearly in an area that is unfamiliar to them.

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Economist John List is trying to start a scaling revolution. He discusses avoiding false positives, the cause of a given success and optimal quitting.

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