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Same goes for work. If you join a well oiled machine that just seems to be working great, you may never understand how it works, since you won't be exposed to various people diagnosing issues. Join a place that used to work and is now creaking, or a place that never worked, and there's more pain but also more learning.

Also when does a Factorio system ever work? There's permanently a pressure for it to do more, stuff stuck on the wrong belts, not enough of some input...




If you use a calculator and then carefully design out the logistics & geometry of your factory, you can build stuff that basically "just works" once you iron out the missing inserters & power poles. You get bottlenecks when you focus on one product at a time instead of looking at how the system as a whole functions.


> Also when does a Factorio system ever work? There's permanently a pressure for it to do more, stuff stuck on the wrong belts, not enough of some input...

Sounds like a growing SaaS company.


I think this is the classic "when it is working well, no one notices"




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