Do Things That Don't Scale

Biological Parallel

Oak trees invest massive resources in individual acorns—far more than their wind-pollinated competitors. It doesn't scale, but it produces a seed so energy-dense that squirrels cache it (free distribution) and forget 50% (free planting). Young mycorrhizal networks do the same: hand-wire each tree connection before the network becomes self-organizing. Unscalable work creates the infrastructure that makes scaling possible.