I think that, naively, we tend to see a thing that we want and then formulate a plan to go and get it. Like, "I want to make $1M and retire on an island", and then we start formulating plans, doing the calculus, and experimenting. And, obviously, there's a lot of sophistication that happens in between seeing the thing that we want and figuring out how to get it. But, often we can get better gains by finding a really good process and then finding problems that it applies well to. This kind of inverts the advice, "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like nail." We're supposed to take away the idea that we need tools which are better suited to the job. But, maybe our takeaway should be that we actually need to go and find more nails.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.doliver.org//articles/fit-problems-to-processes