Porous Edges in Organisations.

We're not secret agents. We're innovators.

When asking ourselves, should we be careful about who to let inside, who knows what we know, the easiest choice is batten down the hatches. Nothing obviously bad happens with such a choice. Not like opening the doors and letting others gain our advantage.

But what does NOT happen because of this?

🥺 We don't learn from others about how our ideas could be better.

🥺 We do not mobilise a community to expand the impact of what is possible.

🥺 The benefit to the world only goes as fast as our own resources can muster.

🥺 We don't feel the pressure to relentlesly improve our part.

Do you really need a wall around your organisation?

I like porous edges, because it is at the edges that the magic happens.

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I'm a Partner at Main Sequence, a VC purpose-built to create global companies from scientific ideas with the inventors who imagine them. I build-out-loud here: https://philmorle.substack.com