# Fundamental Tensions * Top down v Bottom Up * Variance v Systemization * Technology Push v Technology Pull * Stability vs Innovation * [[Structural vs Contingent Causes]] * [[§Specialists vs. Generalists]] * Efficiency vs Redundancy * [[Individual rights conflict with societal progress]] * [[Individuals vs Collectives]] * [[Ends vs Means]] * Transparency vs High Variance * [[There is an inherent tension between mental health and being the best]] * Knowledge of an area and ability to discover things in it (curse of knowledge) * [[When should we defer to experts?]] * [[There is a fundamental tension around the causality between salesmanship and good work]] * [[There is a tradeoff between an organizational culture that is good at addressing market uncertainty and one that is good at addressing technological uncertainty]] * [[Taxpayers want governments to be responsible with their money but research requires being slightly irresponsible]] * [[Karl Marx]] came up with the idea that there is a fundamental contradiction between the desires of the different classes. [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Fundamental+Tensions) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Fundamental+Tensions) <!-- #list -->