Takeaway and restaurant food is modular, (prepared as a [[mis en place]]) prepped to fit together at just the right moment. Chop sticks just work with the size of vegetable and meat and protein that has been chopped. The benefits include faster cooking time, no need for the customer to chop whats on the plate, better surface area for flavour. All of this compounds when you increase the number of meals that can be turned out, when you can accurately estimate portions by eye, when the cook can use their [[Intuition]] to cook exactly what is needed and when. There are lessons in this for [[§ Design|design]], [[Atomic Design]] principles create compounding returns. Having a clear [[Service Design]] in place collects existing organic systems and adds deliberate systems design to connect all the puzzle pieces. However, [[Alienation|alienating]] natural human activity too much into machine form distorts [[human scale]] existence. - - - #### References [[Shipping Container Analogy]] [[Systems Thinking]] [[Design for the Real World (1984)]]