It's pretty easy to spend more time optimizing than you save from the optimizations.

I like the first one. In terms of the concept, it's very mid curve.

either it's efficient or its not. if efficiency changes, that one thing, but "too efficient" isn't a thing. oh, and I don't give a fuck about that graph.

Yes it's a well known thing, probably has many names. E.g. overfitting. As you say, the intuitive way to understand it is strength vs brittleness.

The whole universe is based on inefficiency. It allows ecosystems to thrive and it builds resilience. Start optimising and past some point (actually quite early in the process) you are sacrificing resilience. Pushing for extremely efficient systems is wrong architecture move. Resiliency of the ecosy...

Every minute I gain through efficiency gets crammed with another ten tasks. Man doesn’t just have insatiable wants. He has an insatiable desire to build.

Had similar thoughts, for example is there anything we would like to be inefficient or is capped by some invisible bureaucratic inefficiencies, anything we would want the state to actually do? Relating to your charts, maybe efficiency acts as the speed of the system, so increasing in efficiency wou...

May need to define the word efficiency as you could be efficient at being inefficient.