Chain Design

A chain is practices composed in sequence — one stage&#x27;s output is the next stage&#x27;s input. Three facts govern its design: order matters (composition is not commutative), interfaces filter (Polanyi 1966), links degrade (Bartlett 1932); the chain&#x27;s shape prints onto the product (Conway 1968, mixed support). Where correction matters more than throughput, close the loop (Åström & Murray…