Some links between CF and TOC

Topic Summary:

This post is about some links between TOC and CF.

Goal:

To check whether I understand TOC and CF.

CF relevance:

TOC is relevant to CF and this post is about explaining some of the reasons for that.

Do you want unbounded criticism? (A criticism is a reason that an idea decisively fails at a goal. Criticism can be about anything relevant to goal success, including methods, meta, context or tangents. If you think a line of discussion isn’t worth focusing attention on, that is a disagreement with the person who posted it, which can be discussed.)

Yes. I want unbounded criticism.

I have previously commented on some similarities between TOC and Objectivism:

https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/notes-on-the-goal-by-goldratt/422/32?u=alanforr

Optimising for the bottlenecks by sometimes leaving non-bottlenecks idle sometimes is similar to not overreaching by avoiding filling up your schedule with junk that distracts you from doing important stuff well.

https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/notes-on-the-goal-by-goldratt/422/41?u=alanforr

Gathering facts or measurements isn’t useful in and of itself unless you know why they’re relevant.

optimising for bottlenecks is a special case of only working on stuff that’s near to a breakpoint