It started with the cow path: working flatter, not faster.
Our first impulse was to pave the cow path, to computerize the way manual procedures were done. Then we tried to straighten out the cow path, to make those procedures more efficient. In this article, contributing editor Jim Wesley says we're still thinking this way, and argues that maybe we shouldn't be following the cow path model at all.
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