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In a 10k person org with say 8k individual contributors, 1980 managers, and 20 executive management, I think the bet is that in any given quarter, at least a few of the powerpoints made by the 1980 managers "pays off" and the benefit is socialized across the orgs.
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Twitter is a good example of such a lottery system. Even when you have enough of a following that you can sort of predict how many likes/RTs a tweet will generally have, you can't always predict *who* will like/RT or when you'll get the random viral blow-up.
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On certain kinds of tweets you can predict who will see and like/RT, but the algorithm adds enough of a lottery-like uncertainty that it's never really certain. This is why you have 3 basic tweeting styles: for yourself, for mutuals, for the numbers.
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If all you care about is the number of likes and RTs, it means you don't really care about who is responding, which means you value every potential respondent equally low, so you need to aggregate a lot. The other extreme is tweeting for a single senpai-notice-me muse.
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I've only ever tweeted for myself. Once I get to know a mutual, I might @ them for specific things. Both the numbers stuff and senpai-notice-me styles leave me cold. Because they ARE both "cold" styles in their own way. Kinda clinically playing the lottery in a specific way.
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Playing for numbers is like slots, but with some ability to pick out machines that return greater than 100% (the fortune cookie themes like personal development, startups, crypto...). Playing senpai-notice-me is like blackjack. Skilled tactics like card counting are available.
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Somebody asked me yesterday what I do with my time, and I said "waste it." It's kinda true. To the extent that I spend most of my time in extremely lottery-like regimes of information work, I "waste" it.
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we're all growing increasingly useless so we should waste our entire lives as then maybe we'll somewhat randomly do something spectacular along the way. Let the robots do the deterministic stuff
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