There's a saying that you should always work to minimize the number of axes along which you're innovating at the same time. Every innovation carries the risk t

There's a saying that you should always work to minimize the number of axes along which you're innovating at the same time. Every innovation carries the risk that you might be wrong and taking too many gambles guarantees that one will blow up in your face. This is complicated by the fact that sometimes you can't make progress by changing just one thing, there are some local maximums you can only get out of by changing multiple things at once. The Mill has some sets of innovations that seem to come together, for instance the Spiller, Belt, and memory speculation model seem hard to seperate. But I'm pretty sure you could detach that from having a virtually addressed cache and their protection model. And then there's stuff like the super weird organization structure they have. I feel like they're setting themselves up for failure by trying to make changes in so many ways all at once.