A fanatic asks “ok but does it help with the Outcome?” every. single. time. to the point where if upending his own organization will help, he’ll do that. Larry Kramer was a fanatic. That’s why he got kicked out of the org he founded.
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When you meet a fanatic, you realize how many of your preconceptions about “necessity” are fake. “But you Need to pay a salary this high!” Do you? Or could you relocate to somewhere unfashionable? hire people who didn’t go to fancy schools but can still do the work?
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“but you Need to write a formal report!” Do you? how does that change the Outcome?
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“Ok but now your org is disrespectable, unprofessional, and a really stressful place to work!” “Ok but does that change the Outcome?”
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“but you’re alienating people!” “Ok does that change the Outcome?”
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“But the people doing it the other way are so much more technologically advanced and smarter than you!” “Ok but are their Outcomes better?”
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Do you really care about the Outcome? Or are you only willing to do things to improve the Outcome so long as they don’t disturb all the *other* stuff you care about?
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We often use people’s self-sacrifice as a proxy for commitment. You say you care about X — do you care enough to give up wealth and comfort for it? To give up having children? To give up eating meat?
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Self-sacrifice *does* indicate commitment, all else equal, but IMO it’s more revealing on the low end than the high end. Someone who never endures even mild inconvenience for his goal is not motivated;
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but that doesn’t mean that the *most* self-sacrificing people are the *most* motivated. Why? Many of the things that you have to “sacrifice” to a goal are not actually related to personal enjoyment.
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You can save money by locating your org in a cheap place or not hiring too many people; you can also save by refusing to buy office snacks or comfortable chairs; the latter hurts more but saves less.
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You can “sacrifice” unexamined assumptions of “necessity” without sacrificing anyone’s personal enjoyment of life. Some people who are very good at this kind of prioritization are not extremely personally ascetic, but they do really care about their goal.
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The only actually good metric of whether someone cares about the Outcome is whether the Outcome improves due to their actions.
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