{"id":1284,"date":"2026-04-23T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2026-04-27T00:49:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T00:49:35","slug":"scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=1284","title":{"rendered":"Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"But does it scale?\"
A Boardroom favorite.
The killer of all blue sky
brainstorming pods.

Can a solution, X solves for Y,
be repeated with high fidelity
at a volume high enough 
to beget sustained ROI?

Feeling behind on my writing,
I now ask myself, pointedly:
Creativity \u2014 Can It Scale?<\/em>

I have never heard of a
corporate poet in residence.
In a land of outcome over output:
Can I produce genuine poems
at enterprise levels?

Acts of art made efficiently;
streamlined, in high volume.
And under deadline, no less.
All without sacrificing wit, 
wisdom or wackiness?

It's a matter of metrics.
For a poetic performance review:
How to measure a musing?
Who determines success?
When do I know, did I scale,
or fail?

Perhaps pentameters
don't perform well when 
pressure-tested 
and process-mapped.
For this fiscal quarter, 
I'll stick to the slow roads.



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\u201cScale,\u201d an intersectional pondering of performance metrics, scaling solutions, and creating poetry, written by a poet masked in a corporate suit, April 23, poem 113 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. “Hershey Chocolate Enrober,” Hershey, PA, USA. Photo by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,782,200,2,750,551],"tags":[441,793,795,794,783,583,790,786,499,787,579,760,788,784,792,785,789,791,598,390,99],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-corporate","category-humor","category-poems","category-pun-y-tongue-in-cheek","category-unserious","tag-april","tag-blue-sky","tag-boardroom","tag-brainstorming","tag-corporate","tag-creativity","tag-deadline","tag-does-it-scale","tag-fail","tag-fiscal-quarter","tag-metrics","tag-musing","tag-pentameters","tag-performance","tag-poet-in-residence","tag-scale","tag-slow-roads","tag-wackiness","tag-wisdom","tag-wit","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1330,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/1330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}