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title: "Against optimization"
date: "2024-05-29T14:21:14-07:00"
tags: ['tech']
description: "One of the most inescapable edicts when leading a team is the order to optimize the system towards the organization’s goals. It comes up across industries and at every conceivable stage of an organization, whether an early-stage startup optimizing for experimentation or a later-stage group optimizing for growth or an aged institution optimizing for preserving revenue."
link: "https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/against-optimization"
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