{"id":3989,"date":"2010-04-06T05:50:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T10:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3989"},"modified":"2010-04-06T05:50:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T10:50:40","slug":"quote-the-collapse-of-complex-business-models-clay-shirky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/06\/quote-the-collapse-of-complex-business-models-clay-shirky\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote :: The Collapse of Complex Business Models \u00ab Clay Shirky"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Early on, the marginal value of this complexity is positive\u2014each additional bit of complexity more than pays for itself in improved output\u2014but over time, the law of diminishing returns reduces the marginal value, until it disappears completely. At this point, any additional complexity is pure cost.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirky.com\/weblog\/2010\/04\/the-collapse-of-complex-business-models\/\">The Collapse of Complex Business Models \u00ab Clay Shirky<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early on, the marginal value of this complexity is positive\u2014each additional bit of complexity more than pays for itself in improved output\u2014but over time, the law of diminishing returns reduces the marginal value, until it disappears completely. At this point, any additional complexity is pure cost. via The Collapse of Complex Business Models \u00ab Clay &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/06\/quote-the-collapse-of-complex-business-models-clay-shirky\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quote :: The Collapse of Complex Business Models \u00ab Clay Shirky&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}