The web privileges effectiveness over efficiency, allowing organized behavior at scales impossible to manage institutionally: Wikipedia's editorial culture (~2 million English contributors, ~5 million across languages) is roughly 100,000 times larger than its managerial culture—an inversion of a newspaper, where the managerial culture (all employees) is about twice the editorial culture.
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“the web privileges strategies of effectiveness / efficiency”
Created: 6/15/2026, 9:28:59 AM
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