For anyone confused, "TOC" refers to "theory of constraints":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_constraints

I also enjoyed The Goal and found it helpful for my manufacturing business, although I'm having trouble understanding how it connects to this blog post.

It doesn't do with this post. It has to do with pebble. They overproduced and were too carried away with efficient over production and (probably) had warehouses full of pebbles. For years after you could get a new in box one for $40 or $99 at retail when it was supposed to be $200 or so.

What's Pebble? It's mentioned on the Beeper home page too with no context as though everyone should know what it is, sadly I don't.

One of the original smartwatches, if not the original:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/getpebble/pebble-e-pape...

(At least I think that's what the word salad of parent is referring to.)

I would name Seiko Data-2000 the original, some 28 years earlier. Even if you'd like something more modern-looking the list still has IBM Linux Watch and Samsung SPH-WP10 and others before.

Thanks. I had one of those and quite liked it.