Makes me think of: some of Taleb's ideas about just-in-time manufacturing (no slack eg covid supply shocks) https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yLLkWMDbC9ZNKbjDG/s

Makes me think of: some of Taleb's ideas about just-in-time manufacturing (no slack eg covid supply shocks) https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yLLkWMDbC9ZNKbjDG/slack https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yLLkWMDbC9ZNKbjDG/slack Also, can't recall it but a long time ago I read a piece about how scheduling a system to 60% of its max capacity is generally about right, to allow for expected but unexpected variations (also makes me think of the concept of stochastic process control and how we can figure out the level of expected unexpected variations, which could give us an even better sense of what %-of-capacity to run a system at)