Great piece Jim, enjoy your dives into history as a lens to see the present. Interested in the Shu-Han because it seems to be most similar to the one commandment from the Network State in terms of moral purpose; what's interesting about Bala's proposition that is different from the Shu-Han is that there is less predictability in this model - i.e. he imagines dozens maybe hundreds or thousands of network states, with a niche one commandment, and this idea of consolidating network states over time through a process of experimentation and consolidation of network states through aligned one commandments - will be interested to see how this plays out...
Thanks firecat, indeed, it would be interesting to see how these ideas from Balaji play out. A lesson from Shu-Han was that it became predictable and it did not adapt over time.
Great piece Jim, enjoy your dives into history as a lens to see the present. Interested in the Shu-Han because it seems to be most similar to the one commandment from the Network State in terms of moral purpose; what's interesting about Bala's proposition that is different from the Shu-Han is that there is less predictability in this model - i.e. he imagines dozens maybe hundreds or thousands of network states, with a niche one commandment, and this idea of consolidating network states over time through a process of experimentation and consolidation of network states through aligned one commandments - will be interested to see how this plays out...
Thanks firecat, indeed, it would be interesting to see how these ideas from Balaji play out. A lesson from Shu-Han was that it became predictable and it did not adapt over time.