The evolutionary advantage of humans is that we cooperate flexibly in large numbers. If this is humanity's superpower, anything that boosts this ability to cooperate flexibly at scale is a civilizational upgrade. Understanding how power and culture create persistent coordination structures with distinct identities is crucial for building lasting institutions.

Scale allows specialization and creates social proof, enabling advantages to compound and potentially creating network effects. But scaled companies get destroyed by bureaucracy. The bigger you get, complexity increases exponentially and smart quirky people get weeded out. Balancing structure with responsiveness is organizationaldesign's central challenge.

Few rules, high trust, teams working together. Give autonomy and let them play their own game. No single leader as all participants were independent. Create high-trust teams and go far with autonomy. It takes bravery to limit complexity and maintain high-trust culture, but the results justify the difficulty.