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SLASOG: Leaders are ReadersBrian Potter - The Origins of Efficiency: Scaling ProductionModern culture treats efficiency as inevitable. Give smart people incentives, add technology, wait…and productivity appears!Brian Potter’s The Origins of Efficiency dismantles this assumption. The book’s central claim is that efficiency is not a default outcome of markets or technology, but a historically rare achievement that requires deliberate intent and execution.Efficiency emerges only when a specific set of conditions align, often over decades. Where those conditions are absent, even advanced societies stagnate.Efficiency Is an Emergent PropertyPotter treats efficiency as a property of systems rather than indivi...
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