We tend to look at products in isolation, but they are coevolved with their surrounding context.

If you're trying to build a product at a higher pace layer, but it has to fit into a lower, slower pace layer, you'll get bogged down.

You need to go as slow as the slowest pace layer you interact with that could kill you if you do it wrong.

In general, if you implicitly think you're at a different pace layer than you are, you're going to have a bad time.

If you think you're at a lower one than you are, something in the environment will go faster than you and kill you before you know what's happening.

If you think you're at a higher one than you are, you'll be trying to sprint through molasses, perhaps making non-viable decisions.