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by tomasGiden 2361 days ago
Whenever I see articles like this or about frameworks like the Cynefin framework I cannot help but to see it like any mathematical optimization problem. If the solution is simple to see you just jump to the solution. If it is more complicated but you have good practices / know the gradient (“know in what direction you are going”) and the problem is well behaved, you can iterate quickly and reach and expect to find an optimum. But if it is more complex and you don’t know I what direction to go / don’t have a gradient you need to do try lots of different experiments in parallel also.

And the more costly an iteration is the more important it is with multiple perspectives to get as much data into the different experiments from the beginning as opposed to randomly selecting things to try out and seeing what happens.