On reselience and fragility.

I've been pondering about the optimised systems (in business, in mechanics, in general, from system theoretic standpoint).

Optimisations require increasing *reliability*, but as you optimise, you -- by definition -- reduce the error margins. The less margins you have the less reselience -- by definition -- you can have.

It may sound obvious, but it has interesting implications.

For example, the system of business (such as a racing league like #WRC or #F1) where businesses compete in optimisations, will transitively be fragile!

For instance, business that runs away with a particularly successful optimisation will then destroy the system together with the competition (like #Toyota did in mdoern rally). A manual intervention will be required.

Not sure if it makes sense to people who aren't into rally, but I think that the three concepts: optimisation, reselience and reliability are very interesting to consider.

Seb Ogier's 2022 Toyota as a bonus for rally heads

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