🚥 a system can only be improved at its tightest bottleneck
I’ve been thinking a lot about Tiago Forte’s point about bottlenecks – that the only meaningful improvement you can make in any system is at its tightest bottleneck. Progress at the second tightest bottleneck is unhelpful – you either just add extra stress on the tighter bottleneck ahead, or create capacity that goes unused. A […]
🚦 constraints
I’ve written a lot about constraints over the years, and this blogpost strikes me as the best “master switchboard” to use to link to everything else. The thing that gets linked and referenced most is this 2019 twitter thread. In 2022 I wrote a substack essay trying to contextualize this, which is Dancing With Constraints […]