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		gyre007 on Dec 23, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Favorite nonfiction books of 2018? 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...

nyolfen on Dec 23, 2018 | [–]

see also this review by freeman dyson(!):

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/05/10/the-key-to-every...

unpaywalled:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180420081837/https://www.nyboo...

mpweiher on Dec 26, 2018 | [–]

Also featured at the Long Now Foundation:

  http://longnow.org/seminars/02011/jul/25/why-cities-keep-growing-corporations-always-die-and-life-gets-faster/

Very much worth a listen, and probably a read.

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