Thinkie: Latency, Throughput, & Variance

Pattern: Someone says, “I need you to go faster!” You’re going as fast as you can. What do you do?

Transformation: The situation is under-constrained. “Go faster!” can mean any of several things. Find out which, then bias towards reducing variance first.

I ordered my first Waymo autonomous ride last night. When I arrived I realized that I was much more re…