Effort shock is detail shock is reality shock. Many things that seem like they’d be really cool to have done turn out to require way more effort, patiently wrangling more way detail than you realized was involved, than you’re willing to invest.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1289586376887824384 …
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Ref 1: Effort shockhttps://www.cracked.com/article_18544_how-the-karate-kid-ruined-modern-world.html …
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Ref 2: Detail shock/reality shock http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail …
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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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I think the way great managers and leaders become great is by creating a world of detail for themselves that is comparable to the natural detail environment that accompanies individual contributor work. Those who fail to do this fail at their jobs.
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The thing is, the "domain" of leaders/managers is other people, and people are not things. If you bring "thing" like detail orientation to people, you'll come across as creepy/stalkery. You don't want to obsess over people the way you might over a car engine.
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I suspect that coming across as creepy/stalkier is not really a limit on the detail-orientation of the social domain (management, sales, and other kinds of influencing). It’s just a sign someone is bad at that domain.
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I agree. My point is that personal details are the natural detail layer for people work, but they're off limits. If someone goes there anyway, it means they're not imaginative enough to find an alternative detail domain to master that's useful to their roles.
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