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Pace Layers

Inspired by architect Frank Duffy’s book “Work and the City”, Stewart Brand came up with the concept of Pace Layers, a mental model explaining how complex human systems learn and evolve while they nevertheless stay stable and resilient. This gives us an incredibly rich lens to look at that other complex human system: the commercial enterprise.

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The Louisiana Purchase

The greatest deal ever? Not so fast, we argue. As we deconstruct the anatomy of the deal, we question whether the United States really accomplished such a one sided negotiation victory over France – and if we need to nominate any winner at all, it is perhaps a surprising third party to the deal.