Do less, accomplish more

Have you noticed how, in festive weeks, traffic becomes a breeze, there's lots of parking spaces, life is more beautiful?

The explanation is simple - a LOT of people go on holidays. How many? Lots of them! The city is empty!

Only it isn't so - or at least the explanation is not that straightforward.

The fact is that in modern life, many systems are working at capacity. And when things are working at capacity, one hiccup can bring everything to a standstill. 

Traffic and parking are good examples. An accident or a temporary suppression of parking places can wreak havoc. People don't arrive at their destination, more cars roam the streets, flow gets slower and slower, problems start appearing in unrelated places, and you get waze maps colored in red.

The opposite is true. Perhaps you live in a neighbourhood where it's tough to park if you don't have a garage -- hey, that's most of Lisbon for you. Well you arrive late at night, and at any given time, there might be one place for five people driving round and round the block. And hundreds of places are already taken for the night. It just takes "one percent" of these places to be vacant, because some families went on holidays, for the parking troubles to vanish. It takes just a little less pressure on the system.

This post is not about urban management.

What if you could do more by doing just a bit less?

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