I'll give a concrete example. Health care systems. Free market works okay. Socialized (a la Britain) works okay. The middle -- where the US is, with a mixture of free market and regulation -- is prone to corruption and works less well than either extreme.

Killing, stealing, rape, and murder are bad. I'm going to go to the far extreme there too.

If I'm running a business, focusing on one thing and doing it well (and outsourcing everything else, or following "industry practices") works better than trying to innovate everywhere. That's actually pretty general -- if you're extremely good at a few things, that works better than balance on a personal career level too.

It's a fallacy to split down the middle and balance. There are times that works, and times that doesn't.

Life ain't about balance. It's about thinking things through.