Scaling: Myths vs Reality

Think Simple

#If 10 builders can build a house in 100 days and how many builders do you need to build the same house in 5 days ? Expectation:200 builders

The answer was simple as a kid. When did we learn and how far in life it takes to understand this does not scale. Why did we had to accept it as a fact even if it was not working.

Maybe: Like the quote “A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.” —?Simon Sinek

Can 200 builders have done it in 5 days if they trust each other ? Are these builders a group or a team ?

Obviously, its true its hard to scale

Growing up , So called smart questions

# On a sunny day , One shirt takes half an hour to dry , How long time would 10 shirts take to dry ? Expectation:Half an hour

This takes scaling to a different level. May be the resources are unlimited unlike a real problem. But in fact this is not even right. There are overheads and planning and execution.

# Imagine the same sunny day with 100 of shirts being dried.

Assume, a one minute administration in order to put it in place and pick it up. So it adds 100 minutes overhead to half an hour with a total of 130 minutes#

#Imagine you come up with a infinite number of shirts on a similar day

This will go on forever regardless of unlimited resources. Same applies having infinite number of builders building instantaneously.

Is it a law in nature which prevents scalability? Is it because entropy is involved ?

Is it similar like pushing an object towards the speed of light ?

Is there a new factor similar like "Euler's constant" that governs this in nature ?