Episodes

  • Production - The Efficiency Trap

    Production - The Efficiency Trap
    Apr 17 2026
    Nick Ledger explores why our obsession with efficiency—from hospitals cutting nurses to farms destroying topsoil—creates fragile systems optimized for narrow metrics while sacrificing resilience, meaning, and long-term sustainability. He challenges listeners to ask: efficient at what, and what aren't we counting?

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    23 mins
  • Production - Every Burrito Is a Factory

    Production - Every Burrito Is a Factory
    Apr 17 2026
    Nick Ledger unpacks how everything we make—from your Chipotle burrito to Hollywood scripts—follows the same three-stage production model: inputs, conversion, outputs. Discover how understanding this framework reveals hidden connections across supply chains, organizational culture, and power structures shaping production.

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    23 mins