Reproduction

"...e between iterative improvement and radical reinvention. Companies age. Some die young. Some seem to live forever. This book explains why. Book 6: Reproduction & Expansion How organisms reproduce and what actually transfers to offspring. Franchising, geographic expansion, M&A, spin-offs - these are all rep..."

"...ich an organism converts everything it consumes into everything it needs to stay alive. Food becomes energy. Energy powers movement, growth, repair, reproduction. Waste products get broken down and expelled. Resources get stored for lean times. Every second, billions of these reactions cascade through your cel..."

"What worked at 1 meter fails at 10 meters. Physics doesn't care about your growth plans. --- Resource Allocation: Growth vs. Reproduction Trade-offs Every organism faces a fundamental constraint: limited energy. You can't spend the same calorie twice."

"Chapter 5: Reproduction and Replication When Growth Means Copying What Works Right now, in your gut, a bacterium is dividing. It takes 20 minutes."

"They're not "part" of you in the conventional sense. They have their own DNA, inherited only from your mother. Their own reproduction cycle. Their own double membrane. They're technically separate organisms living inside your cells. Bacterial immigrants that became so essential we c..."