Marginal gains in many aspects can have a big impact
Date created: 2021-11-08
This philosphy revolutionized the British Cycling team under the leadership of Dave Brailsford.
The whole principle came from the idea that if you broke down everything you could think of that goes into riding a bike, and then improved it by 1%, you will get a significant increase when you put them all together
In terms of productivity, you can often see improvement by focusing on the processes and friction, rather than the big lofty goal since Friction typically manifests as many small things. In economics, it’s basically compound interest
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