Work is work, in which returns diminish (2020)
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Work is work, in which returns diminish (2020)
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Re: Work is work, in which returns diminish (2020)
#2Previously submitted 18 times. Most extensively discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22797687
Re: Work is work, in which returns diminish (2020)
#3Previously submitted 18 times. Most extensively discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22797687
This is the first time I'm seeing it. If resubmissions were forbidden I wouldn't have ever known of its existence. I'm not sure what the solution is, but I'd like to think removing it from my cognitive landscape for the sake of a forum host (a stranger) isn't it.
Re: Work is work, in which returns diminish (2020)
#4Previously submitted 18 times. Most extensively discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22797687
This is the first time I'm seeing it. If resubmissions were forbidden I wouldn't have ever known of its existence. I'm not sure what the solution is, but I'd like to think removing it from my cognitive landscape for the sake of a forum host (a stranger) isn't it.
When something gets reposted, it's fairly common for somebody to comment with previous discussions. I hadn't seen this submission before either, but I'd also not seen the discussion OP linked.
Re: Work is work, in which returns diminish (2020)
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the first time I'm seeing it. If resubmissions were forbidden I wouldn't have ever known of its existence. I'm not sure what the solution is, but I'd like to think removing it from my cognitive landscape for the sake of a forum host (a stranger) isn't it.
When something gets reposted, it's fairly common for somebody to comment with previous discussions. I hadn't seen this submission before either, but I'd also not seen the discussion OP linked.
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Re: Work is work, in which returns diminish (2020)
#6Previously submitted 18 times. Most extensively discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22797687
This is the first time I'm seeing it. If resubmissions were forbidden I wouldn't have ever known of its existence. I'm not sure what the solution is, but I'd like to think removing it from my cognitive landscape for the sake of a forum host (a stranger) isn't it.
Reposts are fine if it's been a year or more since the last discussion. It's helpful to have links to the previous discussions, hence, the link above.
Re: Work is work, in which returns diminish (2020)
#7I periodically reread this post to remind myself of the communication overhead involved when scaling an org. People love to model headcount and work capacity linearly but it just never works out that way (and Coda explains why).
Re: Work is work, in which returns diminish (2020)
#8I know this has been discussed and rediscussed but the notion of thinking about human organization blackboxes trading work with each other the same way we think about how distributed systems blackboxes trade work and communication with each other I think is a huge insight for helping software engineers understand the complexity of human organizations.
You want to avoid single points of failure, optimize bottlenecks, build in redundancy in similar ways etc. Etc. It's a great insight.
Re: Work is work, in which returns diminish (2020)
#9"The work capacity of an organization scales, at most, linearly as new members are added. "
WTF? This is a bad way to think about the 'division of labour'.
One man cannot ever get over a 10 foot wall.
Two men together can absolutely do it.
'Work' is not the measurement, 'productivity' is.
Even the fleeting thinker, who works only 1 day a week, but shows up every day, may be absolutely critical to making things work. Paid for that input, when it matters, not 'daily wages'.
Re: Work is work, in which returns diminish (2020)
#10This reads a lot like Engelbart's work on organizational augmentation/collective IQ etc.
Tough stuff to get right.