I used to work at a startup where my job was to write reports for clients. Then I spent several years doing the same thing as a freelance side project in my free time. As soon as I went solo, my work quality got WAY better. Why? Permission.
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If you have to get a doctor’s permission to get pain medication, a lot of people are going to just do without, or self-medicate with alcohol (bad idea!) rather than let another human being judge whether they’re really disabled or just “drug-seeking.”
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Or think of Joel Spolsky’s criterion of “can you make a build in one step?” If you have to ask someone’s permission before you can check if your code works, you’ll check FAR too infrequently.
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I’ve heard horror stories about workplaces where you had to ask the boss’s permission, separately, for every purchase, even a 75-cent packet of nails. That did not result in smart budgeting.
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There are a lot of contexts where boundaries are important. But you can set boundaries in ways that require less, or more, permission-asking (i.e. communication). You can give a department a budget instead of making them beg for each nail individually.
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Self-enforcing rules, like user permissions on a filesystem, waste less time and create less psychic inhibition than expecting people to “check in” with a person.
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