If you don't perceive the cost of coordination, you'll underestimate timelines by orders of magnitude.

· Bits and Bobs 9/22/25
  • If you don't perceive the cost of coordination, you'll underestimate timelines by orders of magnitude.
    • "A week" becomes "a month."
    • "A month" becomes "a year."
    • The biggest cost when doing something novel is not the individual execution, it's the coordination between people.
      • Sharing a mental model with enough fidelity to be able to work on it in a way that can cohere into something that works.
    • One of the curses of the human experience is that our internal knowhow is orders of magnitude richer than we can efficiently communicate to others.

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