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gyre007 · 2018-12-23 · Original thread
Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies by Geoffrey West [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Scale-Universal-Organisms-Cities-Co...

zwischenzug · 2018-11-01 · Original thread
I was going to write a post on this, and then saw someone else had already done it better than I could manage!

It was inspired by this book, which was really eye-opening: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Scale-Universal-Organisms-Cities-Co...

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