See below for a quick excerpt, but really I recommend reading the whole thing here. It shouldn’t take more than a minute.

Excerpt:

Systems with slack are more resilient. The few extra minutes of time aren’t wasted, the same way that a bike helmet isn’t wasted if you don’t have a crash today. That buffer will save the day, sooner or later.

Seth Godin, https://seths.blog/2019/06/investing-in-slack/

Brandon