It is surprisingly easy to have this happen, often due to founder attention being elsewhere, metrics collection lagging major trapdoor decisions (like hiring), the costly behaviors feeling really success-inflected in the moment, locally-optimized decisionmaking, etc. https://twitter.com/DanielleMorrill/status/1070326882220953602 …
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Relatively few smart, ambitious people will write in their performance review “The best thing I could do this quarter was nothing and so I ruthlessly executed on doing nothing.”
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(In an ideal world the person you’ve hired is an irrepressible polymath who seemlessly pivots into a job other than the one assigned to them even before management asks, but global supply of this sort of person is insufficient for a demand by a factor of at least 100.)
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