I think you should have continued reading from where you quoted.
>> Aren't we trying to understand things? ***You can really only brute force new and better things if you are unable to understand. We can make so much more impact and work so much faster when we let understanding drive as much as outcome.***
I'm arguing that if you want to "deliver business units to increase shareholder value" that this is well aligned with "trying to understand things."
Think about it this way:
If you understand things:
You can directly address shareholder concerns and adapt readily to market demands. You do not have to search, you already understand the solution space.
If you do not understand things:
You cannot directly address shareholder concerns and must search over the solution space to meet market demands.
Which is more efficient? It is hard to argue that search through an unknown solution space is easier than path optimization over a known solution space. Obviously this is the highly idealized case, but this is why I'm arguing that these are aligned. If you're in the latter situation you advantage yourself by trying to get to the former. Otherwise you are just blindly searching. In that case technical debt becomes inevitable and significantly compounds unless you get lucky. It becomes extremely difficult to pivot as the environment naturally changes around you. You are only advantaged by understanding, never harmed. Until we realize this we're going to continue to be extremely wasteful, resulting is significantly lower returns for shareholders or any measure of value.
Think about it this way:
Which is more efficient? It is hard to argue that search through an unknown solution space is easier than path optimization over a known solution space. Obviously this is the highly idealized case, but this is why I'm arguing that these are aligned. If you're in the latter situation you advantage yourself by trying to get to the former. Otherwise you are just blindly searching. In that case technical debt becomes inevitable and significantly compounds unless you get lucky. It becomes extremely difficult to pivot as the environment naturally changes around you. You are only advantaged by understanding, never harmed. Until we realize this we're going to continue to be extremely wasteful, resulting is significantly lower returns for shareholders or any measure of value.