David Epstein

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582 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 10 Sep

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Passion Struck with John R. Miles · You Don't Need More Freedom. You Need Better Constraints | David Epstein - EP 818 · 10 Sep 2026 podcast

And once we identified that spot where work is piling up, it doesn't matter how efficient all the other steps are.

because the work just piles up at that one step.

And so once we had that identified, I could talk to the team and say, all right, this is the bottleneck.

How do we widen this step?

Stop spending effort on the other steps.

Because it's just making those steps faster and piling even more up at the bottleneck.

And we need to focus our energy on

How do we widen this one step?

So I would make every step in the process visible, just so you can look at it on the wall, say where's the work piling up?

And then

Don't spend energy on the places where work isn't piling up because that's just running the machines faster so they can pile up at the slowest step.

David Epstein.com.

I have a free newsletter that you can find there and a free YouTube channel where I turn a lot of these things into sort of video lessons.

That's new.

So yeah, but it's all at you can find it all at davidepstein.com.

Oh, thank you.

Thank you.

I try to uh pretend that nobody whose brain I admire reads that substack because for me it's a place where I want to be a little free to be very imperfect.

So I appreciate that.

I will attempt to forget it.

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