Stephan Goetschius's List: Trends

• indicates that shifting demographics was an important cause of early leaps in human development.
• suggests that what all these leaps had in common was the growth of local population density beyond a certain threshold.
• The Tokyo metro area, home to more than 35 million people, produces almost $1.2 trillion in economic output each year, roughly as much as Australia.
• urban metabolism
• superlinear” scaling
• By almost any measure,” they wrote, “the larger a city’s population, the greater the innovation and wealth creation per person.” There seems to be no limit, as yet, to the relationship between greater density and faster growth.
• • superlinear scaling vs. exponential
• • create a critical mass of exchange across the mayo enterprise… whether they have "the tools" or not, they first and foremost need interaction
• Highly developed social skills are different from mere sociability. They include persuasion, social perceptiveness, the capacity to bring the right people together on a project, the ability to help develop other people, and a keen sense of empathy

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