More generally, would it be reasonable to say that legibility relaxes coordination constraints? That feels like it helps crystallise something I’ve been mulling over.
If you have a map of a city, you don’t need to find someone who knows the city to navigate it. If you have accurate birth and death records for a country, you don’t need to talk to local leaders to find out things like “how many people are avoiding taxes” or “how many people are dying of malaria”. If you know exactly what quality of wood a forest is going to produce, you don’t need to talk to all of the forest managers to find out which one is most suitable as a supplier.
More generally, would it be reasonable to say that legibility relaxes coordination constraints? That feels like it helps crystallise something I’ve been mulling over.
If you have a map of a city, you don’t need to find someone who knows the city to navigate it. If you have accurate birth and death records for a country, you don’t need to talk to local leaders to find out things like “how many people are avoiding taxes” or “how many people are dying of malaria”. If you know exactly what quality of wood a forest is going to produce, you don’t need to talk to all of the forest managers to find out which one is most suitable as a supplier.
Interesting point. Rings true, though I’ll have to mull it over a bit. Certainly important-if-true.