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Magnitudes of exploration. | Irrational Exuberance

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Mostly standardize, exploration should drive order of magnitude improvement, and limit concurrent explorations. Standardizing technology is a powerful way to create leverage: improve tooling a bit and every engineer will get more productive. Adopting superior technology is, in the long run, an even more powerful force, with successes compounding over time. The tradeoffs and timing between standardizing on what works, exploring for superior technology, and supporting adoption of superior technology are the core of engineering strategy. An effective approach is to prioritize standardization, and explicitly pursue a bounded number of explorations that are pre-validated to offer a minimum of an order of magnitude improvement over the current standard. Much thanks to my esteemed colleague Qi Jin who has spent quite a few hours discussing this topic with me recently. Standardization is focusing on a handful of technologies and adapting your approaches to fit within those technologies’ capabi

Mostly standardize, exploration should drive order of magnitude improvement, and limit concurrent explorations. Standardizing technology is a powerful way to create leverage : improve tooling a bit and every engineer will get more productive. Adopting superior technology is, in the long run, an even more powerful force, with successes compounding over time. The tradeoffs and timing between standardizing on what works, exploring for superior technology, and supporting adoption of superior technology are the core of engineering strategy. An effective approach is to prioritize standardization, an

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