Why Efficiency Is Killing Us All
They told us to specialize. They told us to find your niche. To stay in our lane. To put all our cognitive eggs in one basket.
It is the oldest lie in the modern playbook.
It is a trap.
It is the architecture of fragility.
Look at the modern professional. He is obsessed with optimization. He wants to be the fastest cog. The smoothest gear. The most efficient component on the assembly line.
But efficiency is for machines operating in a vacuum. Efficiency assumes a static environment. It assumes tomorrow will look exactly like today.
Your life is not a vacuum. Your life is a warzone.
In a warzone, efficiency gets you killed.
Survival depends on redundancy.
The amateur designs his life with Single Points of Failure. The professional designs for structural integrity.
A system with a single point of failure is not a system. It is a waiting room for disaster. It is a structure that has already collapsed. Gravity just hasn’t received the memo yet.
You are walking through a minefield with a map drawn by…
