Optimal group size & sub-group design under Price's Law

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> "an interest comment on this could we given prices law, how many people should be working in a group for the optimal amout of productive output?

This is the 9th–10th capture in the compounding/skill/agency family ingested today. The marginal value is shifting: each new capture adds detail but the underlying operating-system claim (skill compounds; stacking factors beats spreading; sub-grouping is the structure that…

Price's Law alone doesn't give an optimum — adding people always adds high performers, but each new person contributes a smaller marginal increment. To find the optimum, you need a coordination cost term, and that's where the sub-group insight becomes load-bearing.

**Sub-groups have MORE high performers (20 vs. 10), MORE total output (28 vs.

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