Most companies live in one pace layer.
If you cross multiple pace layers it's orders of magnitude more challenging, but also an order of magnitude more value that can be created.
From other episodes
- Different layers will by default diverge.2026-03-30
- Lower pace layers need to move slowly to be able to be depended on.2026-03-23
- Developing a platform at the same time as the product is hard.2026-03-23
- Everyone thinks their pace layer is the most important one that everything else orbits around.2026-03-09
- Loops in different pace layers can't be directly connected.2026-03-09
- Lower pace layers should be boring.2026-03-09
- When you're in a punctuated equilibrium it feels like a singularity, but it will level off.2026-03-02
- Big teams for successful products don't go slow because they get lazy, it's because they're at a lower pace layer!2026-02-23