Make Tradeoffs — Choose What Not to Do
Trade-offs achieve two things:
- Create the need for choice.
- Protect against repositioners and straddlers.
Trade-offs happen when activities are incompatible. One way to think of trade-offs is that having more of one thing requires less of another.
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