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The Hidden Costs of Optimization Culture
Optimization—the relentless pursuit of marginal improvements—defines contemporary high performance across sports, technology, and finance. Yet this episode interrogates the psychological, organizational, and systemic costs of living within optimization frameworks. We speak with athletes experiencing burnout from tracking metrics, technologists whose companies optimized for growth at the expense of product quality, and traders whose optimization models created systemic fragility. The conversation explores the distinction between productive optimization and pathological perfectionism, examining…
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