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Chapter 7

Traffic Lights at the On-Ramp

Metering the entrance makes the highway faster.

The questionWhat would happen if you released less work into the system next week?

The first step to recover a congested system is to limit the release of work, not to accelerate it.

The scene this idea comes from is Chapter 7 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?