> A few hundred years ago, most companies were workshops of a dozen people. Now we have multinationals with hundreds of thousands. The communication infrastructure (human brains connected by meetings and messages) buckles under exponential load. We try to solve this with hierarchy, process, and documentation. But we've been solving an industrial-scale problem with human-scale tools, like building a skyscraper with wood. Metaphor one: steel enables buildings to be much taller Metaphor two: steam engines enable factories to decouple from water (powered by water mills) 工业革命初期,纺织厂建在河边,用水车驱动。蒸汽机出现后,厂主最初只是把水车换成蒸汽机,其他不变,生产力提升有限。 真正突破是厂主意识到可以完全脱离水源——在靠近工人、港口、原材料的地方建更大工厂,围绕蒸汽机重新设计。 **我们还在"替换水车"阶段**——把AI聊天机器人嵌入现有工具。我们还没重新想象:当旧约束消失,公司能运行在睡觉时也工作的无限智能上,组织会是什么样?