The more structured your orchestration system, the more it compounds in value.

· Bits and Bobs 5/12/25
  • The more structured your orchestration system, the more it compounds in value.
    • If you already have all of the other adjacent context in one place and up to date, it gets easier and more valuable to add each incremental piece of context.
    • This is especially true if you have to organize your context for your family where you have to share tons of potentially sensitive information with your partner.
    • So there's a strong pull to put more and more structure and data into your system.
    • But the more structure, the more manual effort it takes to maintain and implement that structure..
    • The more effort it takes, the more likely you get behind.
    • The more you get behind, the more likely you get very behind.
    • When you get very behind, the more likely you are to call bankruptcy on the whole system.
    • All but the most disciplined people will at some point inevitably stop using their orchestration system, after having sunk huge amounts of time and effort on it.
    • The reason for this diversion is that humans are responsible for all of the mundane, mechanistic effort.
    • An insight from a friend: "People don't want a better Notion, they want a librarian."

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