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I hope that, after the pruning process, some more 'random, rhizomatic' growth is allowed. You can't always tell what's going to be valuable ahead of time. And sometimes interesting connections happen when smart people are allowed to work on important projects.

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Google is very much a random, rhizomatic company. For the project I'm working on, we have all sorts of different groups who are working on random bits of functionality (some of which overlap with and duplicate each other) that we need to integrate into one big whole. If anything, I think Google runs the risk of not having enough organization and unity.

Every large organization has departments that overlap and duplicate. The problem is when there is a gap that no one is working on.

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