# Bottlenecks A tight definition of bottlenecks that I like: **Bottlenecks** are the problems/capabilities, that if solved/created, would enable many other people and organizations to move forward on the <technology, problem, goal> you care about. In general, we want to identify bottlenecks because So we care about *actionable* and/or *unintuitive* bottlenecks to *important things*. We want ### What makes something a bottleneck? - It’s a “rate limiter” [[Funding unlocked might be a good way to measure the ROI on addressing bottlenecks]] ### Related - [[What are the different kinds of bottlenecks?]] - [[List of spicy bottlenecks]] [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Bottlenecks) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Bottlenecks)