I hope you do write a post on that, and I enjoyed this one by @nulliusinverba, too. Stuart Kauffman at the Santa Fe Institute, wrote something along the same lines in his book At Home in the Universe: "The results hint at something deep and simple about why flatter, decentralized organizations may function well: contrary to intuition, breaking an organization into "patches" where each patch attempts to optimize for its own selfish benefit, even if that is harmful to the whole, can lead, as if by an invisible hand, to the welfare of the whole organization..."
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