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Scale by Geoffrey West Reviewed: Where Physics Meets Hubris

Geoffrey West’s Scale seeks universal mathematical laws of growth across biology, cities, and corporations. It’s bold, partly right, and mostly over-extended. The biological physics hold up; the social analogies don’t. Useful for thinking about efficiency, fragility, and systemic limits; but best treated as heuristic, not law.

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What It Means To Be A Business/Technology Architect In A Post Agile, Post AI World

What does it mean to be an architect in a post-agile, post-AI enterprise? This article explores architecture as sense-making, navigation, and organisational memory rather than artefact production. It examines the evolving role of domain and enterprise architects, the value they bring to fast-moving change programmes, and how good architecture enables speed without fragility by preserving coherence, optionality, and shared understanding over time.

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