It's an essay against the common pattern of "architecting expensive highways to the destination" (teleological) as opposed to "cheap meandering towards payoffs"

It's an essay against the common pattern of "architecting expensive highways to the destination" (teleological) as opposed to "cheap meandering towards payoffs" (convexity, optionality). > Things have costs. Being open to pivoting has a cost. Of course no cost pivoting is a no-brainer, like the numberless graphs. But in the real world with costs what do you do? The first is to avoid voluntary teleological ("I know where we're going and how we're going to get there, and here's the itemized budget for the next 3 years") costs.