This is Steva Robbins.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Bottlenecks. I just love bottlenecks.

No, no I don't. I hate bottlenecks.

But there are a fact of life, just like Cat Pictures and Kim Kardashian.

So, life does get better when learning to deal with them.

First, let's get clear on what a bottleneck is.

It's not a species of tropical bird.

Any system, like a person or a company or a computer program, is made up of lots of parts.

Those parts all work at different speeds.

But at any given moment, there's only one part that's maxed out, and that's called

the bottleneck.

It's working as hard

as it can, and the rest of the system has to orient around it. I've never been on the Autobahn,

but I've heard stories about this mythic highway in Germany with no speed limit, where even light

can go as fast as it wants. On the Autobahn, you don't just put the pedal to the metal,

you put the pedal through the metal, You put the pedal through the metal.

Being careful not to cut your foot on the torn pieces of metal, of course.

When you're driving on the Autobahn, the bottleneck is the accelerator.

Your car is built so that all of that power, all of those moving parts and all that energy

funnels down to your foot on the accelerator.

That makes it the car's bottleneck. And the

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