--- title: Reject Change, Sometimes | daily.dev description: Kent Beck explores Shannon's Demon, a rebalancing strategy from investing theory, as a lens for thinking about volatility in software product development.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/reject-change-sometimes-q9xybus8i twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Reject Change, Sometimes | daily.dev og:description: Kent Beck explores Shannon's Demon, a rebalancing strategy from investing theory, as a lens for thinking about volatility in software product development.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/reject-change-sometimes-q9xybus8i og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Q9xYBUS8I.png og:image:alt: Reject Change, Sometimes og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Reject Change, Sometimes **[Software Design: Tidy First?](https://daily.dev/sources/tidyfirst)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Kent Beck explores Shannon's Demon, a rebalancing strategy from investing theory, as a lens for thinking about volatility in software product development. Using a coin-flip thought experiment, he contrasts three postures—Prudence (risk-averse), Reckless (all-in), and SD (rebalancing)—and maps them onto his 3X framework: Extract favors SD-style rebalancing and reversible changes, Explore favors going all-in like Reckless when upside is skewed, and Expand introduces a third option of investing in reducing the probability of failure. He includes a small JavaScript simulator to build intuition and closes with a pitch for his advisory and speaking services. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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