“One of the things you will find, which is interesting and people don’t think of it enough, with most businesses and with most individuals, life tends to snap you at your weakest link. So it isn’t the strongest link you’re looking for among the individuals in the room. It isn’t even the average strength of the chain. It’s the weakest link that causes the problem.” – Warren Buffett
“All the frontier labs are speeding up their own developers using AI tools, but it’s not very neat. It seems to have the property of “you’re only as fast as the weakest link in the chain”—for instance, if you can now produce 10x more code but your code review tools have only improved by 2x, you aren’t seeing a massive speedup.” – Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic (20260110)
Jerzy Gregorek says it’s usually one organ that causes all the others to fail.
And he relates this to joints. Your weightlifting performance (e.g., squat) can improve a lot, for example, by addressing the mobility of ankles—just by few degrees.
Fix your weakest link.
Related Notes
- 1-1a4c2 The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
- 3-1a4a1 The whole must be evoked in explaining the parts
- 5-1b1a7 Technology’s ‘function’ consists of many parts, and you have to have an explanation for how each contributes to the whole (i.e., ‘vertically-integrated’)
- 10-2g2e6a Science is about understanding the whole of reality, of which only an infinitesimal proportion is ever experienced
- 10-2f1 Chomsky’s UG approach only looks at a subset (syntax) of a subset (language) of the whole (communication system — ‘the gestalt’). Syntax is only secondary to conversation.
- 3-1a4a1 The whole must be evoked in explaining the parts
- 2-1e Everything is connected in a complex way
- John Doe: “Only the current Orinoco output of 700 000 bpd is enough to crash the Canadian economy.”
- 2-1b2b5 Know the correlations between your bets. Holy grail is fifteen or so uncorrelated bets.
- 3-1a4b1.2 Define and stay within your circle of competence
- 3-1d7a ‘Bottlenecks’ - Don’t hate them. Rather, use them creatively.revisit
- 5-1b1.1 Redundancy over premature optimization—especially against Black Swans
- 7-1a5a Finding some distribution arbitrage in your time and place is also a great source for growth
- E.g., revisit less connected notes (when applied to note taking)
- 9-4b2a1d0.3 The essence of analysis is articulation - 分析の本質は分節
- 11-3.3 ‘The law of diminishing returns’ - We can recalibrate the curve so that we are always at the growing phase of the S-curve!
- RUL3 - Run upstairs. Choose the difficult terrain like guerillas.
Interesting Research:
- Dr. Winsor’s autopsies (a series of studies conducted by Dr. Henry Winsor in the 1920s)
- Rather than disproving chiropractic theory, it ended up reinforcing the idea that there is a connection between spinal health and overall body function, including organ health. His findings suggest that degeneration in the spine can correspond to degeneration in organs controlled by nerves at the same spinal level, highlighting the importance of spinal alignment in maintaining good health.