I often struggle to explain that: 1. Generally, the range of things you could possibly do that are worse than nothing is larger than the range of things that are better AND 2. Trying most things is cheap & when trying in earnest, humans are good filterers of possibility space
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Broadly speaking, humans are prone to get into serious trouble when they attempt massive-scale things straight out of the gate, but they also don't try to do nearly *enough* things
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They also fuck up *much, much* more when they're incentivized to *look like* they're trying to do something rather than incentivized to actually do the thing, and it's not always clear to anyone involved which of the two is happening or that there is a distinction at all
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Mason 💦 👏 + 😷 + 🏃♂️ ✂️ Retweeted Mason 💦 👏 + 😷 + 🏃♂️ ✂️
If it's not clear why this is, consider this: Is it easier to solve a very hard problem, or... ...to accidentally/subtly introduce or neglect obstacles that you can later use as evidence that it wasn't your fault that the problem didn't get solved?https://twitter.com/webdevmason/status/1222681556960940033?s=21 …
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Mason 💦 👏 + 😷 + 🏃♂️ ✂️ @webdevMasonThey also fuck up *much, much* more when they're incentivized to *look like* they're trying to do something rather than incentivized to actually do the thing, and it's not always clear to anyone involved which of the two is happening or that there is a distinction at allShow this thread2 replies 2 retweets 34 likesShow this thread
chad donkey from shrek 2 Retweeted Shreyas Doshi
These individual incentives eventually create bloat on an organizational scale; it’s how most of our biggest institutions ‘stay in business’ without accomplishing anything https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1218728249569628162?s=21 …https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1218728249569628162 …
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