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====Tedium==== | ====Tedium==== | ||
Tedium and confusion are related | Tedium and confusion are related. They may be the same thing viewed from different perspectives. | ||
*Tedium is a marker for waste | *Tedium is a marker for waste and dysfunction: | ||
**boring activities could | **Boring activities are generally repetitive, unsurprising, mechanical, conceptually simple and of peripheral importance. Generally, boring activities ''could'' be mechanised. | ||
**Boring activities | **Boring activities that are not mechanised will be done badly or even [[perversity|perversely]]. | ||
**All other things being equal, tedious activities should be mechanised. But a surprising portion of them are not. | |||
=====Reasons not to mechanise tedious operations===== | |||
'''Upfront cost''': Given the upfront cost of mechanisation, necessary activities that are boring but not mechanised will either be not important or not properly understood. The former does not matter; the latter has the potential to blow up the organisation. | |||
there is an inverse relationship between the amount of time, middle management spend on a task and its overall importance, i, to the organisation | there is an inverse relationship between the amount of time, middle management spend on a task and its overall importance, i, to the organisation | ||
====Consensus==== | ====Consensus==== | ||
Consensus is uninteresting until it turns out to be wrong. | Consensus is uninteresting until it turns out to be wrong. | ||
The truth debate: “show me relativist in a plane and I'll show you a hypocrite” is to confuse truth and consensus. | The truth debate: “show me a relativist in a plane and I'll show you a hypocrite” is to confuse truth and consensus. A relativist who gets in a plane believes it will fly | ||
====Middle management==== | ====Middle management==== | ||
Middle management understands nothing. The process | Middle management understands nothing. The process of ascending into middle management is to unlearn whatever it is you know. | ||
*Hence middle managers are susceptible to conjuring tricks, shiny things and new technology. Any sufficiently primitive middle manager will be unable to distinguish a basic chatbot from magic. | *Hence middle managers are susceptible to conjuring tricks, shiny things and new technology. Any sufficiently primitive middle manager will be unable to distinguish a basic chatbot from magic. | ||
====Change, progress==== | ====Change, progress==== | ||
Successful inventions do not make life harder. |