4 ms·
The issue is hyper-optimization is very easy to break and very hard to maintain. In a way it's an anti-pattern you should do only if there's no other way to gro
by tacone 7y ago
The issue is hyper-optimization is very easy to break and very hard to maintain. In a way it's an anti-pattern you should do only if there's no other way to grow.
That is: if you want a car to go faster you may improve the engine, or focus to make the car lighter. If you hyper-optimize the engine the smallest variation in the fuel will affect performance. If you hyper-optimize the weight you better watch out on your own diet :) otherwise the car won't be as fast as intended.
All in all it often goes back to following the Pareto principle. If you need to hyper-optimize you landing pages you probably need to focus elsewhere. You need good landing pages, not perfect ones.
- ohduran 7y agoAgreed. Relying on growth tactics while ignoring a well-thought marketing strategy is doomed to fail.
- aaronblohowiak 7y agoYou are approaching a discussion of one of my favorite topics "adaptation vs adaptability"[1]. Basically, there is a spectrum between perfect efficiency and being completely flexible. we see this over and over again, from software (where flexibility might show as generality or abstraction) to organisms/ecosystems to statistical methods. https://people.clas.ufl.edu/ulan/files/Conrad.pdf https://people.clas.ufl.edu/ulan/files/Conrad.pdf
- celticmusic 7y agoIt's the basis of evolution in general. Something can be perfectly optimized for an environment, but when that environment changes they may go extinct from it. so instead don't necessary want perfectly optimized, we want good enough, because inside that good enough is where adaptability to changes comes from.
- aaronblohowiak 7y agoyes, and the article i linked to explores this in terms of ecosystems and the flows of material and energy between different organisms within the ecosystem.