THE EFFICIENCY PARADOX: WHY OVER-OPTIMIZING COULD KILL YOUR STARTUP

Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter

Frederick Taylor, the godfather of efficiency, failed spectacularly when he first optimized a machine shop - production dropped 30% because he perfected a system for yesterday's problems while the company was still figuring out what to build. Modern founders fall into the same trap, spending weeks implementing Google-style OKRs with ten customers, or A/B testing headlines while their business model is broken.