So one of the reasons I'm thinking about this is that work at abstract levels, like management and leadership, suffers from a lack of natural detail. A manager can't be a detail-oriented to the same degree as a mechanic because social reality has a lot less natural detail
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Micromanagement is also a symptom of this syndrome. Which needs a name. Something like "The no-there-there problem of people work: the lack of default potential for a satisfying universe of detail in people work and how people cope with it"
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Went down this bunnytrail via the
@artofgig post I just wrote on leverage... there's a leverage vs. detail tradeoff in work that can kill you.https://twitter.com/artofgig/status/1288943229887365120?s=20 …Show this thread -
Hmm... I think there's a fundamental tradeoff between leverage (in the effort multiplier sense rather than debt sense) and detail orientation. Leverage spreads the same amount of detail over more area, creating fragility.
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