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How to ThinkIn the Age of AI
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Identify and invest disproportionately in enabling…

Identify and invest disproportionately in enabling conditions that create cascading improvements across multiple downstream outcomes rather than targeting each outcome independently.

Why This Is a Principle

This principle derives from axioms about systems being perfectly designed for their results (Every system is perfectly designed to get the results…) and behavior arising from structure (The behavior of a system arises from its structure…). It prescribes strategic resource allocation based on understanding enabling relationships. The Alcoa example demonstrates this principle in action.