Fractal

In essence, you are assuming that each segment of a company is a fractal of the whole[…]

Romanesco was my gateway cauli and I've never stopped growing it. Not a variety as much as its own thing, Romanesco is a cauliflower to the French, a calabrese to the Italians. […] Visually, it may be the most remarkable thing you can grow: it is made up of lime-green mini-spirals that coil around themselves in fractal formation.

A fractal situation emerges in this way then: the consequences of Ulysses' decision to abandon Calypso are not entirely predictable.