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Chapter 9

Following Distance

Buffers are not waste. They are how flow survives surprise.

The questionWhere is your safety distance, and what is it telling you right now?

Well-placed buffers make flow reliable in the face of ordinary, expected variation, and they also show where to act.

The scene this idea comes from is Chapter 9 of the book, available now.

You do not have to wait for it. A different chapter, The Mathematics of Flow, is already finished and ready to read: it is the one where the whole logic of the book becomes visible, and it stands on its own.

I will ask you one question back: which sentence in it describes something you are living through right now?