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I suspect there would be larger deltas due to improvements in nutrition and fueling. As another poster has mentioned, today's runners are ingesting so many more carbs per hour than…

If "winning" the beer game means not overreacting to short-term signals, then you can view that as a form of slack. You're sometimes paying a bit extra to hold onto something that …

That's exactly backwards. In the current regime, it's precisely the billions of people who are affected by data breaches (and who happen to be taxpayers!) who are footing the bill.…

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Indeed, I'm not seeing a "so what" here. LLMs make mental models cheap, but all models are wrong, and this one is too. The inclusion of Donalla Meadows' book and the quote from The…

One intuition for the variability argument comes from binary search, where you learn the most when you eliminate half the possibilities. You can apply the same logic to your produc…

The book has a chapter about how to optimize variability in the product development process. The key idea is that variability is not inherently good nor bad, we just care about the…

Cycle time is imprtant, but three problems with it. First, it (like many other factors) is just a proxy variable in the total cost equation. Second, cycle time is a lagging indicat…

It can very much so be a data breach for government to "have access to" other agencies' data. Check whether U.S.C. § 3552(b)(2) contains any exceptions or carve-outs for government…