"Every increase in efficiency increases vulnerability.
The hardest failures to prevent are the ones that sound rational. In a scaling issue where efficiency and resilience pull apart, the decision is not crazy; it is only incomplete.
In a scaling issue where efficiency and resilience pull apart, you will be tempted to trade a small, visible win for a large, delayed cost. Drift happens when the cost stays unnamed. You see it in running services so hot that one surprise turns into a cascade. Keep it calm, concrete, and small; the goal is a move you can repeat, not a speech you can admire.
Dietrich Dörner is a reminder to audit the argument, not the intention. State the win you are buying and the cost you are taking on, so it cannot hide inside execution. Keep it short enough to remember under stress.