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Samo Burja

Samo Burja

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Founder of the consultancy Bismarck Analysis and author of Great Founder Theory, writing about how institutions are built, how they decay, and why civilisations collapse.

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2 of Samo Burja's claims fit 1 mental models. Most often: Everything decays without maintenance.

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Everything decays without maintenance

Institutions, code, cities and knowledge run down by default; keeping something alive is work that has to be paid for.

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Institutional decay is the normal case: keeping an existing capability alive is difficult and growing a new one is rare.

  1. Samo Burja Founder of the consultancy Bismarck Analysis and author… Decay is in fact the rule: the maintenance of old institutional abilities is difficult, and the growth of new ones is rare. Institutional Failure as Surprisesamoburja.com · 24 Apr 2018All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsDecay is in fact the rule: the maintenance of old institutional abilities is difficult, and the growth of new ones is rare.

    ↗Institutional Failure as Surprisesamoburja.com

    24 Apr 2018

In a dysfunctional society the loss of working knowledge becomes routine, and attempts to reverse-engineer what was lost do not always succeed.

  1. Samo Burja Founder of the consultancy Bismarck Analysis and author… That knowledge never should have been lost in the first place, but in a dysfunctional society, such loss of knowledge becomes the rule. Why Civilizations Collapsesamoburja.com · 19 Aug 2020All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsThat knowledge never should have been lost in the first place, but in a dysfunctional society, such loss of knowledge becomes the rule.

    ↗Why Civilizations Collapsesamoburja.com

    19 Aug 2020