# There are lots of Christianity style companies but very few Judaism style ones Many companies spurred on by the mythic god-founder. Let’s call this Christianity style. This approach seems great for scaling quickly and absorbing other organizations. However, as you get further away from when the founder was in charge, politics takes over, cultural splintering and bureaucracy seems to take over. In contrast, Jewish worship is focused on a holy text more than anything else. This approach seems to have a lot of staying power and maintain cultural coherence for a long time despite that culture being intimately tied to argumentation. [[The fact that the torah is always in Hebrew is powerful]]. You don’t see many companies focus their entire culture around a single text. Maybe the textualist approach doesn’t work in organizations as well as in religions (or arguably countries.) However, it seems worth experimenting with. There are just tons of pressures for (especially modern) companies to take a founder-centric approach and it seems like once you go down that path it might be very hard to come back. ### Related * [[PARPA needs a constitution with checks and balances]] * [[A private ARPA requires new legal organization structures]] * Speculatively, a text-based approach might circumvent the fact that [[You need buy-in from the top down to do most things in a big company]]. * A text-based approach probably will *not* bring stated and practiced organizational culture more in line [[Organizations always have two cultures]]. <!-- #evergreen --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/There+are+lots+of+Christianity+style+companies+but+very+few+Judaism+style+ones) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/There+are+lots+of+Christianity+style+companies+but+very+few+Judaism+style+ones)