Oly Sourbut
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first heard Jan 2026
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Like, what are the most vulnerable?
What are the vulnerabilities we haven't yet seen?
Yeah, that's a really good question.
I think I use this word constitution a bit, perhaps a bit loosely, and I should make clear that I'm doing that.
I'm including things like charters for organizations and companies.
And I think in constitutions, I'm also including the more flexible parts of lawmaking and this kind of thing.
The word constitution often gets used for this absolutely foundational kind of principles of a society.
Yes, you're right.
The very biggest of these things, but I'm using it a little bit more flexibly than that.
But of course, there are these kind of constitutional moments, you know, amendments get made even to these absolutely foundational documents.
We wouldn't necessarily want that to be happening much, much faster.
Often these things have lived a long time because they are
at least reasonably well-crafted.
But they do need amending from time to time.
So there are constitutional amendments, even for the most foundational things.
Another thing about, I think about this at the societal level, but I think you can imagine it from a team and an organization level as well.
One thing about the way that we do institutions right now, there's often quite a tension between agility on the one hand and centralization, or rather agility often comes with centralization in a way that you may not want.
You may want the agility, you may fear the centralization because it potentially is capturable or corruptible.
And so the example, the kinds of case studies I have in mind here is things like authoritarian backslide and coups and this kind of thing.
Very often, it's not a kind of, you get, there are usually violent kind of aspects to it at one or another stage, but very often it's actually a gradual process of a real or perceived need for agility and executive action.
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