It’s great to get in on the ground floor of something fabulous, but it’s a perennial problem that neat little events get popular and become neat big events, and then cross some line and lose something vital that attracted you when it was small. Luckily there are many backwaters of the world, all waiting for their own Burns. When KiwiBurn gets too big, you can start VikingBurn (PuffinBurn?) in Iceland. YurtBurn in Mongolia. The list goes on!

Seriously, though, sustainable growth is never an easy trick to achieve, in social as well as in business settings and development of all sorts.