Latency Beats Velocity
Inspired by Ravi Mehta episode
Ravi Mehta: speed to first iteration matters most. In parenting: how quickly you repair matters more than never messing up.
Ravi Mehta distinguishes between latency and velocity in product development. Velocity is how fast you go once you start. Latency is how long until you start. Teams obsess over velocity. But latency usually matters more.
You're going to yell at your kid. That's just... that's going to happen. You'll lose it over something dumb like they won't put their shoes on and you've asked seventeen times and now you're late and suddenly you're the villain in a shoe-based nightmare screaming about footwear like a crazy person.
The question isn't whether you'll mess up. It's how fast you can say "Hey, I'm sorry I yelled about the shoes. That was too much."
Can you repair it in an hour? Same day? Or are you the person who lets it fester for a week because apologizing to a four-year-old feels weird? The speed to "I handled that wrong" matters way more than never handling things wrong.
Lower your latency on repairs. Because perfect parenting velocity is a myth, but you can absolutely get faster at saying sorry.
