This is another one of those models no one pays attention to because it isn’t apparent.\u00a0 But once it is apparent it kicks ass.\u00a0 This model applies at scale, not as it scales.\u00a0 The idea is that when a system reaches a critical mass or limit, the behavior of the system can change dramatically.\u00a0 It can work better, or far worse.\u00a0 So the important thing is paying attention to small changes until you can judge when a critical threshold is reached.\u00a0 Judging where that critical threshold begins is stuff, and unless your a chemist, is probably best judged through experience. Stand on the shoulders of giants here.\u00a0I have lots of these little rules of thumb in my work at a fintech company.\u00a0 These rules apply to our portfolios, customer lifecycles, and even relationships.\u00a0 Build up a list of breakpoints throughout your career.\u00a0 They’re powerful.<\/p>\n
In the book\u00a0Seeking Wisdom From Darwin to Munger,\u00a0<\/em>Peter Bevelin sums it up nicely.<\/p>\n Consider technological, physical, human, biological and mathematical constraints and limits.\u00a0 We can’t send signals faster than the speed of light.\u00a0 There are limits to how small or large something can be.\u00a0 Gordon Moore, one of the founders of Intel, predicted in 1965 that the number of transistors that could be economically produced and placed on a silicon chip would double every 18 months.\u00a0 In 1995 he updated he prediction to once every two years.\u00a0 Eventhually though, physical, engineering or economic limits may stops this from happening.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is another one of those models no one pays attention to because it isn’t apparent.\u00a0 But once it is apparent it kicks ass.\u00a0 This model applies at scale, not as it scales.\u00a0 The idea is that when a system reaches a critical mass or limit, the behavior of the system can change dramatically.\u00a0 It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jongore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}