Some things to learn from the British East India Company's growth and demise

On efficiency, hiring, incentivisation and how we confuse communication latency with analysis speed

Some things to learn from the British East India Company's growth and demise On efficiency, hiring, incentivisation and how we confuse communication latency with analysis speed Rohit Krishnan Jul 03, 2022 42 21 3 Share The heroism that can win empire has no natural affinity with the wisdom and virtue that improve and consolidate it Robert Grant How to get large numbers of people to work together has been a Strange Loop obsession since the first few essays. What’s most interesting to me has been this isn’t a new problem, one that reared up its head in the late 20th century, and our supposed pre

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