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• botany created: ‘2026-05-04 14:40’ last_modified: ‘2026-05-04 14:40:00’ status: evergreen confidence: fact

Local optimization often leads to global sub-optimization

Hyper-optimizing a single department or function without considering the entire pipeline usually creates catastrophic bottlenecks elsewhere. Biological entities avoid this, as Organic systems adapt better to local optimization.¹

Footnotes

1. Goldratt, E. M. (1984). The Goal. ↩