Your boss is a mediocrity that is hopefully at least competent. Your employee is a mediocrity that will hopefully do what he’s told, and do it at an acceptable level. And whoever you wouldn’t employee is a mediocrity that is also useless, or even destructive. There are great man out there of course, but …
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Assess Quality Via Negativa
What someone can’t do reveals more about their ability than what they can do Anyone can do a whole lot of things Anyone can think they know a whole lot of things and think they can do a whole lot of things Anyone can talk big Anything looks easy until you’ve tried and failed …
Function and Dysfunction
There’s function and dysfunction (let’s define “function” as the opposite of dysfunction) -to function is to function well -to dysfunction is to function unwell -to function unwell is to eventually NOT function, to eventually fail -to function well is to survive and thrive, and continue functioning, and functioning well Usually dysfunction is quickly revealed. …
The Level of Detail
At any given subject you have a certain understanding This understanding could be shallow and general, or it could be deep and detailed There are two reasons why you don’t necessarily always want a high level of detail: -observing, understanding details, then creating a detailed model — are resources-consuming. You may want to devote …
No Second Chances
“No second chances” is a heuristic that is simply effective. When something failed 5 times in a row — you can’t rely on it. You get rid of it But when SOMEONE fails us 5 times — somehow our instinct is to get angry, or try to explain it, or try to punish it… …
It’s Only Effortless After Effort
There exist those dichotomies: doing vs being passive income vs active income scaling vs hourly profit hard work vs passion right way vs hard way effort vs effortlessness, wu wei let’s examine you can always do something better (or faster) you can always scale something, do more of something you can always learn more, …
Love = Value ; Value = Love
Obviously what you love is valuable. It’s valuable because you love it. It’s valuable to you because you love it. But then: Obviously if it’s valuable — you would love it. Obviously if it’s valuable, truly valuable, then it is meaningful. When you don’t love what you have — it’s because it is …
The PRAGMATIC
“PRAGMATIC” gets bad reputation Some think it’s too cold, too practical, too calculated, too sterile, Some think it’s not creative, not imaginative, not interesting Nonsense When you want to be creative — you’re creative When you want to be fanciful — you’re fanciful When you want to have fun — you have fun When …
Simple But Not Easy
There’s what’s difficult and there’s what’s simple. But then there’s “simple but not easy”. How can something be “simple but not easy”? In truth, it can’t! It doesn’t make any sense, it’s paradoxical. The true meaning of “simple but not easy” is that it is UNKNOWN The difficulty is ultimately UNKNOWN, in how: -it …
The Burden of Leadership
In any organisation, 1-man or or 1-million-men — there must be a leader, and leaders Because in any organisation, in any activity — decisions must be made — and actions must be taken Leadership is a burden Why? Because ideally — no one would have to LEAD Ideally every decision would be obvious, and …