Kanarupan's Legacy Layers

This post is a short discussion on the above LinkedIn post.

This post shares a similar tone with one of my previous posts.

Efficiency versus Adaptability: These kinds of comparisons often reveal the superficial understanding and mental imagery one has.

Efficiency is loosely and/or widely defined as the ability to accomplish a task with minimal waste of time, effort, or resources. It often involves optimizing processes to achieve the best possible outcome with the least input.

Adaptability is loosely and/or widely defined as the capacity to adjust to new conditions, changes, or challenges. It involves being flexible and responsive to different situations, environments, or demands, and often requires the ability to learn and apply new skills or behaviors.

In a nutshell these concepts are applicable and relevant in ALL CONTEXTS exists and in ALL CONTEXTS that we could imagine.

Efficiency as a concept does not demand a ‘static’ or ‘fixated’ environment. While it might be easier to perform calculations and for humans to thrive in such environments, this has nothing to do with Efficiency as a concept. We can still talk about efficiency in the most dynamic circumstances. Normally, it involves a more continuous, small-step approach. Sure, one may tag it as a more adaptable approach.

Dynamic environments demand adaptability, true. The reason why they demand it is that we want and/or need to be efficient in those environments.

The perspectives that pit Adaptability and Efficiency against each other are superficial; they dwell in the shallow end of the world of underlying meanings.

One must come up with new terms, at least new definitions (after all the terms/words are mostly placeholders) to delve deeper into the world of ideas and appropriately compare and contest concepts.