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"Every system has exactly one constraint. One bottleneck. The throughput of your entire system is determined by the throughput of that bottleneck. Nothing else matters until you fix the bottleneck.
That's the part most people get. Here's the part they don't, and it's the part that should scare you:
When you optimise a step that is not the bottleneck, you don't get a faster system. You get a more broken one."

If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems | Debugging Leadership
AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it. Writing code was already fast. The bottleneck is everything else: unclear requirements, review queues, terrified deploy cultures, and an org chart that needs six meetings to decide what colour the button should be.

10 Ukrainians Humbled Two NATO Battalions. When Will NATO Wake Up?
https://warontherocks.com/2026/03/10-ukrainians-humbled-two-nato-battalions-when-will-nato-wake-up/
'NATO cannot afford to distance itself from the one partner that has spent four years developing, testing, and refining modern warfighting capabilities. The Ukrainian experience is rewriting doctrine that NATO desperately needs to integrate and implement.'
Important article to understand why Ukraine might be more important for future defence than the US for Europe.
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Interesting article, "10 Ukrainians Humbled Two NATO Battalions. When Will NATO Wake Up?"
https://warontherocks.com/2026/03/10-ukrainians-humbled-two-nato-battalions-when-will-nato-wake-up/?__readwiseLocation=…

10 Ukrainians Humbled Two NATO Battalions. When Will NATO Wake Up?
Last May, NATO invited 10 Ukrainians to act as an opposing force during Hedgehog 2025, one of NATO’s largest exercises in the Baltics. The Ukrainians

Vine video-sharing app is back – and battling AI slop | Vine | The Guardian
<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/04/vine-video-sharing-back-battling-ai-slop-divine>
― Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is backi…

The US-Israeli war on Iran created a massive hole in global airspace
Airlines are using long-readied contingency plans but bottlenecks have formed that no amount of planning can fix
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar…

A profile of music AI startup Suno, valued at ~$2.5B with 2M paying users and $300M annualized revenue as of February, as it battles record labels and artists (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivast

AI Music Is Here To Stay, If $2.5 Billion Startup Suno Gets Its Way
The music AI startup is battling record labels and angry artists as it upends how millions of people create songs. Now, some of its critics are starting to get on board.

Supreme Court restores access to abortion pill (Adriel Bettelheim/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/04/supreme-court-restores-access-abortion-pill
http://www.memeorandum.com/260504/p75#a260504p75

On the night of February 5, 2026, the #Rubin team submitted a large batch of approximately 20,000 #asteroid candidate discoveries to the #MinorPlanetCenter, corresponding to roughly 246,000 individual observations: https://minorplanetcenter.net/media/newsletters/MPC_Newsletter_Feb2026.pdf - the "MPC successfully processed the entire submission. This unusually large batch provided a valuable end-to end stress test of our pipeline and allowed us to identify a few bottlenecks and areas where performance and automation can be improved."

A profile of music AI startup Suno, valued at ~$2.5B with 2M paying users and $300M annualized revenue as of February, as it battles record labels and artists (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivast

AI Music Is Here To Stay, If $2.5 Billion Startup Suno Gets Its Way
The music AI startup is battling record labels and angry artists as it upends how millions of people create songs. Now, some of its critics are starting to get on board.

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116341507187654853
Those delays, it seems, are due to a key bottleneck: electrical components manufactured abroad.
Batteries, electrical transformers, and circuit breakers all make up less than 10 percent of the cost to construct one …