PART 2 · CHAPTER 08 · What Being Early Changes

Leverage

For the first time, one person can direct the output of many tireless workers. Leverage just changed shape.

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WHAT THIS PAGE CONTAINS

A title, the published opening thesis and the chapter's section headings. The argument, evidence, examples and full prose remain in the book.

The chapter's route

  1. 01The Old Forms of Force
  2. 02Code as the First Permissionless Machine
  3. 03The Arrival of Model Leverage
  4. 04Commanding Many Agents
  5. 05The Rising Ceiling
  6. 06Permissionless Leverage
  7. 07The Personal Leverage Ratio
  8. 08Learning to Direct
  9. 09Small Teams, Large Shadows
  10. 10The New Bottleneck
  11. 11Early Means Underpriced
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