Understanding Back-Pressure
Imagine you’re a famous writer giving autographs at a book event. There is a crowd of people rushing to meet you. You can only do one autograph at a time, so the organizers let people in one by one. When you sign someone’s book, you ask for the next person to come forward. What if the organizers suddenly let everyone in? Of course, it will be complete chaos! You’ll try to sign everyone’s books as quickly as you can, but soon you’ll get stressed and exhausted, leaving the event early.
It is much more efficient to have an orderly queue of people and to take your time to sign each book. Because you always ask for the next person to come forward, you are in control of the amount of work you have to do, and it is much ...
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