From Busy Factory to Profitable Flow

Am I the bad guy? So I’m running this factory where everyone is busy, machines are going

nonstop, and the numbers look good. Somehow the plant is still losing

money. Then my goat Jonah shows up and asks one simple question: what’s the goal?

I start thinking about efficiency, costs, all that — but Jonah says nah.

The real goal is just to make money, now and in the future. Not to just look productive.

That’s when my mindset shifted. Then Jonah drops new knowledge on three new metrics:

throughput, inventory, and operating expense. I realized that keeping machines

busy for no reason is actually an L. This was lowkey a major vibe shift and it revealed