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Product Design
Celine Schwesinger • 2 cards
Any improvement made after the bottleneck is useless, because it will always remain starved, waiting for work from the bottleneck. And any improvements made before the bottleneck merely results in more inventory piling up at the bottleneck.”
George Spafford • The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
A system has a chain-link logic when its performance is limited by its weakest subunit, or “link.” When there is a weak link, a chain is not made stronger by strengthening the other links.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
Complexity Science
Lucas Jackson and • 9 cards
Prigogine realized that although Boltzmann’s theory was correct, it did not apply to what we observe on Earth because our planet is an out-of-equilibrium pocket inside a larger system—the universe—that is moving toward equilibrium.
Cesar Hidalgo • Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
Hence, we are more likely to accept a dangerous idea if it aligns with our own experiences and is supported by the people we value.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
Daniel Schmachtenberger’s talk at Emergence
youtube.comBungay argues that friction creates three gaps. First, a knowledge gap arises when we engage in planning or acting due to the necessarily imperfect state of the information we have to hand, and our need to making assumptions and interpret that information. Second, an alignment gap is the result of people failing to do things as planned, perhaps due
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