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The technical term for this property is “scale free,” meaning that the thing is basically the same no matter what size it is. This gives you the magic of what I call “scale-free scalability,” meaning you can scale up or down following the same principles independently of where you are scalewise, which is exactly what you want in order to build something huge with ease.
How Big Things Get Done
Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner
When it came to goal setting, Andy Grove felt strongly that less is more: The one thing an [OKR] system should provide par excellence is focus. This can only happen if we keep the number of objectives small ….
Measure What Matters
John Doerr
To do this, members continued to run the service manually until they had clear evidence that automation was needed, and then they built only the smallest amount of software that would address the need.
Sense and Respond
Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden
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