A classic parable of quantity vs quality.
- Which will give you more high quality output over some time horizon: optimizing for quantity or quality?
- In practice, if you optimize for quality, you spend more time planning, debating and trying to produce a theory to then execute.
- But then you try to execute it and realize the real world doesn't comply with your clean model.
- In a theoretical vacuum it can take huge amounts of time to coordinate with collaborators on what the good idea is.
- Whereas if you go for quantity you spend more time doing.[ahz]
- As you do, you see how the real world responds in unexpected ways, and update your intuition and knowhow.
- As you better absorb how the real world works, you get better and better at producing according to the model in your head.
- This requires you to have a sufficient feedback loop from action to result.
- This happens naturally for human-scale, hand-made things where you get your hands dirty.
- It takes considerable effort if the production requires multiple people operating in sequence; you have to actively create a feedback loop that passes through multiple people.