Optimal Illusions
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What’s it about?
A deep dive into how our obsession with optimization creates brittle systems and hollow lives, and why embracing inefficiency may be the key to resilience and meaning.
You’ll learn
- Why optimization makes systems fragile
- The hidden values in every objective function
- How to resist the tyranny of efficiency
- The power of slack and redundancy