There is some basic physics involved. The larger the crowd, the lower the common denominators.

Once the bureaucracy takes over, we go from the Steve Jobs to the Tim Cook, it creates a powerful, centripetal feedback loop. Which without occasional circuit breakers does spiral into that vortex in the middle.

The nature of the node is synchronization, everything on the same wavelength. Lasers are synchronized light waves.

While the nature of the network is harmonization, all these entities rising and falling across infinity.

We are very much in the middle. Our bodies are as much networks of cells, as our societies are networks of individuals.

The maps and models, whether math, monotheism or money, are abstractions from reality, not the basis for it. They break down over infinities and disappear at zero. So much information from the territory onto the map and any signal is lost back in the noise.

So basically it's a matter of keeping a collection of such tools in the mental tool box, not just one big hammer.

Generals lead armies, specialist is about one rank above private.

Efficiency is to do more with less, until we reach peak efficiency and can do everything with nothing. Basically trade credits and debts, aka, derivatives.