It’s easy to say you want more control over your systems. But the cost of decentralization in money, complexity, and overhead can hit hard when the invoice arrives. This week, we’re taking that one step further: If flexibility or even malleability is the goal, how much are you willing to pay for it?

What if the real innovation is not centralization vs decentralization, but the ability to shift between them? It stops being about camps or philosophies—centralized vs decentralized—and starts being about resilience. Adaptability. Survivability. Malleability. The real stuff that makes or breaks systems under pressure.

What if the real innovation is not centralization vs decentralization, but the ability to shift between them? Centralized vs decentralized is the smartest architectures we can shift. Today on the show we learn why flexibility is key to resilient system and identity design.

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