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Shifting from quality as a yield fraction of quantity (the high-grading intrinsic approach to quality) to quality as a controllable process outcome (six sigma) is a total valley of death. Creative work should be defined as that which cannot survive the transition.
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To apply control control as opposed to quality selection (high grading) you need a formula to apply it to. When you don’t have one, but energy is falling faster than yield rate is rising, it is very tempting to invent one to keep absolute yields constant to pay the bills.
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This is the moment of stall crisis for the process. To recover, you have to counter-intuitively five rather than climb. Ie lower the selection threshold for “high grade”. In a way this is the opposite of forcing a formula and trying to faux-optimize (fauxtimize?) it.
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