There's a tension between perfectly bespoke and consistent for everyone.

· Bits and Bobs 8/24/26
  • There's a tension between perfectly bespoke and consistent for everyone.
    • The tension between being the same and being different.
    • How much you should optimize for sameness has to do with the expected rate of surprise.
      • If you're in a mature business, where you have little surprise, you should optimize for scalability and consistency.
      • If you're in an immature business, you should keep your processes more loose.
      • A kind of simulated annealing.

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