The Importance of Centralization in Decentralization

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The ideal is if you can get the decentralization in order to learn about the true differences between customers and centralize the parts where they're mostly the same or where the differences don't really matter. A decentralized team doesn't just know more about Kentucky, but if Kentucky is very different from Ohio, then the team situated there can learn about their Kentucky customers much faster. If you have five different teams in the Midwest and your customers have a lot of commonalities, odds are that each of those teams is going to be reinventing the wheel a lot.

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What is risk-driven development? How should we weigh advice, best practices, and common sense in a domain? What makes some feedback loops better than others? What's the best way to take System 2 knowledge and convert it to System 1 intuition? What are forward-chaining and backward-chaining? When is it best to use one over the other? What are the advantages and disadvantages of centralization and decentralization?

Satvik Beri is a cofounder and head of Data Science at Temple Capital, a quantitative hedge fund specializing in cryptocurrency. He is a big believer in the theory of constraints, and he has a background helping companies find and eliminate major development bottlenecks. Some of his interests include machine learning, functional programming, and mentorship. You can reach him at satvik.beri@gmail.com.

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