{"id":8193,"date":"2023-09-07T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=8193"},"modified":"2023-09-06T16:18:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T22:18:48","slug":"on-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/07\/on-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"On Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In scientific circles we occasionally discuss the \u201cepistemic gap\u201d, which refers to things that are knowable in principle but for whatever reason we still don\u2019t know them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In manufactured spend there\u2019s a favorite epistemic gap of mine: How much spend can you possibly generate in a day? You can of course ask related questions too, such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How much spend in a day if you spend only from home?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How much spend in a day with a grocery category multiplier?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How much spend in a day with a single card issuer?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I could tell you what my records for the above are, but assure you that my records aren\u2019t world records. I can confidently say that the world records for each of the above are beyond an average American annual household\u2019s income though. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s the point? If you\u2019re not shutdown, you haven\u2019t filled the epistemic gap, so consider whether bigger scaling makes sense or whether you\u2019re exactly at the level you\u2019re comfortable with. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/66a70187-2524-4598-9521-ef23fd114ddc-52953-00001d6d350b78b0_file-1024x712.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8201\" style=\"width:420px\" width=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/66a70187-2524-4598-9521-ef23fd114ddc-52953-00001d6d350b78b0_file-1024x712.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/66a70187-2524-4598-9521-ef23fd114ddc-52953-00001d6d350b78b0_file-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/66a70187-2524-4598-9521-ef23fd114ddc-52953-00001d6d350b78b0_file-768x534.jpg 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/66a70187-2524-4598-9521-ef23fd114ddc-52953-00001d6d350b78b0_file-1536x1067.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/66a70187-2524-4598-9521-ef23fd114ddc-52953-00001d6d350b78b0_file-2048x1423.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/66a70187-2524-4598-9521-ef23fd114ddc-52953-00001d6d350b78b0_file-1320x917.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">The epistemic gap, illustrated for visual learners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In scientific circles we occasionally discuss the \u201cepistemic gap\u201d, which refers to things that are knowable in principle but for whatever reason we still don\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8193"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8220,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8193\/revisions\/8220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}