Matrix needs you to push the buttons.
Some people are implementing frameworks to offload operations, but as a result, they are overloading operations and creating complex systems.
Imagine that one tap on the touchpad generates a chain of overloaded events. For example:
Initial Event: The Button Press
- Action: At precisely 8:00 AM, an individual seated in a bustling café clicks the "Create Email" button on their laptop, initiating the composition of a critical message.
Immediate Consequence
- Email Dispatched: This seemingly trivial action results in the dispatch of an essential email to a colleague, containing vital project data.
- Prompt Response: The recipient promptly reads the email and approves a key project decision without delay.
Short-Term Chain Reaction
- Project Advancement: The project kickoff is brought forward, accelerating the overall timeline.
- Supplier Contract: The accelerated schedule necessitates an earlier-than-planned signing of a supplier contract.
Mid-Term Effects
- Production Realignment: The supplier adjusts their production schedule to meet the new timelines, affecting logistics and delivery chains.
- Economic Ripple: These logistical adjustments lead to shifts in demand for regional transportation services, influencing local economic patterns.
Long-Term Consequences
- Economic Stimulation: The increased logistical activity stimulates local economic growth, attracting new businesses to the area.
- Urban Development: The influx of enterprises leads to urban expansion, prompting new housing and infrastructure projects.
Global Impact
- Technological Breakthrough: One of the new businesses specializes in developing advanced urban planning software, revolutionizing city planning on a global scale.
- Sustainable Growth: This innovative software aids cities in growing more sustainably, reducing environmental impacts and improving the overall quality of life.
Conclusion
Thus, the simple act of pressing the "Create Email" button on a laptop sets off a cascading series of events, culminating in technological innovations and sustainable urban expansion. This narrative epitomizes the butterfly effect, demonstrating how negligible actions can lead to profound and far-reaching consequences.
Total
- Approximate Total Man-Hours: 744.5 hours
An attentive person would recognize the butterfly effect. By pushing the email button, the system has created additional load with unexpected impacts.
If you are the person creating this additional overload, I hope you clearly understand what you are trying to achieve. If you are not this person, let me explain why this happened to you and why you have to work in this crazy situation: someone has goals you don’t understand, and you work to achieve those goals. If you can identify the chain of goals, you can understand that at the top is someone who doesn’t care about the metrics you are trying to achieve.
This is all about creativity. It is hard to make the step from 0 to 1 to create something truly innovative that will change the game. Identifying what is new and original versus what is a continuation of an already created system is the most time-consuming task. Identifying the limits helps you find a starting point for a leap.
There are two types of individuals. The first type is good in creativity and bad in execution. The second is reversed—good in operations and bad in creativity. For some reason, operations guys are highly recognized as good leaders and managers. Matrix loves both types: the first for supporting the system, the second for resistance that makes Matrix stronger.
Following and supporting systems doesn't mean being effective; you are just adding additional load. Creating one simple solution does mean being effective. So, it looks like people who are good in operations are not effective. Please don’t mind me saying this. We need to concentrate on a small number of hard points rather than the opposite. It is hard to find them, but the impact will be significant.
Sometimes following a process can kill a good idea. Fast interactions and failures are better than slow ones. You will fail anyway, but it is better to do it fast and finally find solutions that work.
Imagine you have a choice: continue loading the system and producing continuous negative value, or spend your brain resources to cut the corner and supervise the system. An attentive reader will answer: it depends on what your goals are.
Modern Neo struggles to choose between two options until he understands. There is no escape from the Matrix. There is a choice between two ways only: support the current Matrix or create a new one and try to control it until the Matrix controls you. There is no freedom in creating a new Matrix, nor in being part of the current system. There is no escape from the Matrix; you just become a part of new ones and jump into the loop. The only value you can get from both is experience.