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  • Ok this is something I gave a lot of thought about. The mention of “congress” means you want a specific American answer, but I think the same logic can be applied everywhere, because all human cultures function according to similar principles.

    • 0.5% per year

    Meaning if you have a population of 100 million you can take up to 500k new people every year.

    Less than 0.1% it means you country is undesirable. More than 0.5% you will have trouble integrating all the new people. And integration is the main problem, You need an influx of new people big enough so you generate new ideas and new cultures, bur low enough to prevent formation of separate immigrant communities.




















  • Not strictly technical, although organizational science might be seen as a technical field on it’s own.

    Regularly rotating people between teams is desirable.

    Many companies just assign you in a team and that’s where you’re stuck forever unti you quit. In slightly better places they will try to find a “perfect match” for you.

    What I’m saying is that moving people around is even better:
    You spread institutional knowledge around.
    You keep everyone engaged. Typically on a new job you learn for the first few months, then you have a peak of productivity when you have all the new ideas. After some 2 years you either reach a plateau or complacency.