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Hypothesis: The trust level a team can sustain is almost entirely a function of recent win/loss record. The sweet spot is strongly win-biased but clearly short of 100%.
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Corollary: if you want to sustain trust for a long time you have to keep ratcheting up the ambition enough to keep win record bounded away from 100%, but not so much it exits the sweet spot at the other end.. Trust for teams is basically like flow for individuals.
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Individual defections from too much or too little success is the equivalent of focus dissipating for a single mind. Many strands are coherently focused during flow on the same thing. When you lose flow, some strands “defect.” Your eyes wander or zone out, you fidget or doodle…
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Related, the longest-lived trusted teams are probably at a sweet spot of size as well: small enough for each person to have a relatively irreplaceable role, big enough to do ambitious things. I think 8-12, the crucible range. 2 pizza teams.
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I wonder how much of it also involves enrolling others in your wins. Cool if I deliver a sweet feature. Even cooler if a few coworkers and I deliver the same feature. I imagine trust goes up significantly if teams can share successes (and bail each other out of failures).
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who are my teammates even? I should go back and look through my twitter history. I tried to slam you VGR for being too evil, but I didn't know the landscape and fucked up with rand0evilMuK. now that I died, i feel like you are one of my best friends around here bc i rcogniz u.
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