Programming Throwdown, Episode 185 Workflow orchestrators.

Take it away, Patrick. Welcome to another guaranteed to be fantastic

episode. That's right. Yeah, it's money back. I nailed it. We've been doing this too long. Okay,

I'm going to try something a little different. I was thinking about this. I don't have a good

formulation of it. So you can, you can sort of help me. All right. But it's sort of been coming up in a number of things. And the sort of most obvious one is when people talk about venture capital, which is, you know, investors, mostly tech investors. and they invest in, you know, 100 companies,

but really they're expecting sort of 10 to do really well. They're hoping the rest don't,

you know, they just assume they basically go to zero. They kind of don't care. And then they hope,

you know, one or two, 1,000 X or whatever and pay for the risk they take over the entire

pool.

And, you know, part of that is this sort of like asymmetric returns.

And then I began thinking it pops up in sort of other things.

You know, people were talking, you know, most recently I was listening to someone talking about health recommendations, like how much protein should you consume? And people have this,

you know, oh, maybe you did this much, maybe that much, maybe. And they were sort of said,

you know, up to a certain point, it kind of, you know, is very, very important. And then past

another point, you know, it's, you kind of get this like nonlinear relationship. And then I began to think about it.

And they kind of said something that led me to thinking about it in terms of,

in terms of work,

which is if you set a certain target goal for how much you learn,

you know,

in a given day or continual learning or,

or,

you know,

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