Systems are optimized to slow things down, not to prevent them once they start
Summary
- Systems are optimized to slow things down, not to prevent them once they start
Details
- Sometimes its easier to start and ask forgiveness than to ask permission first
- See: Moses in New York, Donald Trump, AirBnB and Uber
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Stake driving: Moses would begin actual construction work on a project as quickly as possible, often starting with driving actual stakes into the ground before he had permits or funding. This made the projects seem inevitable and more difficult to oppose or alter. Systems are often optimized to slow things down, not to undo things that are already happening.
Related
- Start small and create successive versions
- Starting something is hard, but so is stopping something
- Start where you use what you have do what you can - Brianna Wiest
- Upfront planning or start and adjust as you go
- It's easier to optimize a modest start than to begin with a perfect start - James Clear
- Dont wait for perfect circumstances, start with what you have now