Growth

October 2026

• Oct 26, 2026ConceptsMetcalfe's Law: Why Networks Get More Valuable as They GrowBriscoe, Odlyzko and Tilly argued in IEEE Spectrum in 2006 that treating every possible connection as equally valuable vastly overcounts, and proposed that value grows in proportion to n log n instead, a curve still faster than linear but far gentler than the square. Metcalfe answered in 2013 with a decade of Facebook data he said fit the quadratic form. The article traces the law from an Ethernet sales slide to the exponent that remains genuinely unsettled.14 MIN794

January 2026

• Jan 6, 2026TechnologyGrowth Strategies for Scaling No-Code SystemsAirtable runs comfortably to roughly 25,000 to 50,000 records per table, and above that filtering, formulas and automation runs noticeably slow. Its API allows 5 requests per second per base, Notion starts dragging past 10,000 to 15,000 records, and Zapier bills per action step, so an eight-step Zap running 300 times a day burns 72,000 tasks a month. Archival patterns, batching and queueing buy you time; here is when to move to Postgres.17 MIN2.4k

March 2025

• Mar 10, 2025CultureWhat Is Economic Development? Why Some Nations Grow RichThe page tests that against the record rather than asserting it. Korea's state directed credit to chaebol that hit export targets and lost support when they missed, land reform broke the landlord class first, and schooling went from roughly 20 percent secondary enrollment in 1960 to near-universal by 1980. Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson's settler mortality instrument then puts institutions ahead of geography, and the Washington Consensus record is weighed honestly.17 MIN8.1k