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Trust on its own isn’t much of a management technique. Trust cannot distinguish good errors (good process, good decision, bad outcome) from bad errors (bad process, bad decision, bad outcome), nor can it detect bad successes (bad process, bad decision, good outcome). If you rely too heavily on trust, randomness will have an outsized influence on who you consider to be an effective leader.
Inspection and the Limits of Trust. | Irrational Exuberance
lethain.com
In specification, the machine is the part of the system you have direct control over and the world is all the parts that you don’t.
The World and the Machine
Hillel Wayne
What would it look like if we could ask, "how do I make this the absolute best environment for complex problem-solving" instead of "how do I take away all these annoying hard problems." The stuff we want to accomplish in the world is hard. But can be joyful to accomplish.
TBM 242: The Simplicity Fetish
John Cutler from The Beautiful Mess
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