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The Pressure Behind Identity's Diseconomies of Scale

Mon Aug 10 10:15:00 2026

Eve Maler argues that identity's apparent diseconomies of scale are really about gnarliness, not size. That gnarliness has a shape I drew for chapter 19 of my forthcoming book: the gap between a growing decision surface and the infrastructure meant to govern it. That gap is authorization pressure, and it explains why identity gets harder even when a team does everything right.
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