Rome didn't fall to invaders. It fell to its own fixes.
Diocletian doubled the army and bureaucracy to save the empire — and sealed its collapse. This episode traces diminishing returns from Rome to modern software, with a 2019 brain study on why simplification, not addition, is nature's real survival strategy.
🎧 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/episodes/19506038
📖 https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/diocletians-ladder
📻 https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/627187-diocletian-s-ladder
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