Arnd Layer1d ago

I asked my #slopPilot this:
Connect the dots for these memes: agentic ai, culture of good enough, Peter principle, you are holding it wrong and reverse centaur.

I got this visual.

#agenticai, #goodenough, #Peterprinciple, #youareholdingitwrong #reversecentaur

Arnd Layer2d ago
We urgently need a new #meme.
A merger of #AI, the #PeterPrinciple and #youreUsingItWrong / #youreHoldingItWrong.
Claire McNab5d ago

Many thanks to Gerry Hassan for spotting this excellent article on #AndyBurnham by Joshi Herriman in The #ManchesterMill: https://manchestermill.co.uk/stop-looking-for-burnhamism-in-six-years-ive-never-found-it/

Herrimam has massively reinforced my view that #Burnham is a brilliant metro Mayor, but would be a crap leader of the #LabourParty and a crap #PrimeMinister. It's the #PeterPrinciple: people who do a job well get promoted to a job that's beyond them.

#Makerfield #ukpol Manchester

Show threadFloonSep 5, 2025

Cry that it isn't, but you're wrong.

I know too many "meritocracies" that are full of homogeneous idiots. I know C-suites filled with #PeterPrinciple lottery winners who don't know how utterly stupid they are.

Look at the #Trump cabinet: now there's lowered standards for idiot cis-het whites. /4

Show threadBill SeitzJul 25, 2025
@anon_opin And if the first promotion doesn't lead you to incompetence, they'll keep promoting you until it does.
That's the #PeterPrinciple
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Aneesh SatheJul 15, 2025

The Plato Plateau

This post started off as a joke. I was attempting to snow clone the Peter Principle for philosophy. It led to a longer thread of thoughts. But first, the snow clone: 

The Plato Plateau: People philosophize to the level of their anxiety.

Smoking farmer with branches by Kono Bairei (1844-1895). Digitally enhanced from our own original 1913 edition of Barei Gakan.
  • Anxiety is the realization that you have absolute choice over life – Kierkegaard. Anxiety, in this context is not nervousness. It is a positive thing when harnesses. We harness it everyday.  
  • Anxiety is a generative. Anxiety creates identity by locating stable places to launch exploration.
  • Action, exploration, and anxiety are a motor. Anxiety → exploration → action → refreshed identity. Inaction leads to identity death
  • Realizing you are radically free to choose can also lead to a forest of perceived signals. These can be an overwhelming inbox or simply overloaded ambition.
  • When anxiety overwhelms it becomes difficult to tell signal from noise.
  • Tools like GTD crash anxiety. When overwhelmed, GTD works well. When there is too little anxiety identity becomes ephemeral. 
  • GTD isn’t a means to nirvana: GTD integrates 10k, 30k foot views to reintroduce future anxiety.
  • When your identity is smeared across too many anxieties you declare anxiety bankruptcy and crash your identity in some safe spot. Journals, sabbaticals, quitting.
  • Like the parable of the rock soup, vaporized anxiety needs a place to condense onto. Ideally something disposable but sufficient to let your identity create an “ordered world of meaning”
  • Life examination occurs with identity crashes. Philosophy provides just enough of a toehold in the abstract to spur action in the actual. 
  • Philosophy is a way to spur action absent anxiety/identity. We pick the philosophy depending on the degree of identity loss.
  • Philosophy can be broadly sorted as:
  • Survival – laws and tactics oriented
  • Social Cohesion- harmony, virtue ethics, etiquette 
  • Systems level order – algorithms and protocols oriented
  • Self Knowledge and Meaning – reflecting on existing and consciousness 
  • Meta-systems – theorizes about theories
  • Most scientists and builders work best at level 3 systems level order. Going lower, i-ii, for environmental crises and higher, iv-v, for internal crises. 
  • Complexity of selected philosophy is not superiority. A rung’s usefulness matches your identity state and environment, not some civilizational high score.
  • Philosophy as Periodic Maintenance: Crashing and philosophy sampling are maintenance actions on the place called identity.

    • #action #anxiety #Business #existentialAnxiety #existentialism #exploration #GTD #identity #Kierkegaard #lifeDesign #mentalModels #personalDevelopment #PeterPrinciple #philosophy #PlatoPlateau #productivity #selfImprovement #stoicism #systemsThinking

    Show thread1P1sces 🇪🇺Jun 30, 2025

    @sven_giegold

    Man kann mehrmals Opfer des #PeterPrinciple werden… Leider…

    Show threadPeteMay 30, 2025

    @Infrapink @jasongorman @tymwol

    I think it's also related to the #PeterPrinciple... that people get promoted to a level of incompetence.

    The chat part of #ChatGPT is really important because it allows us to correct the LLM's output and give it another chance to completely fool us. When we're satisfied, the output is above our present ability to detect that it is BS.

    By "present ability" I mean we might not feel bothered to check the output, or we genuinely might think it's correct.

    Show threadMarquis de GeekMay 14, 2025

    So,

    1. Always a good reason. When I was at MS, it was management layers that destroy two projects

    2. Usually bad. If a company is making money, then firing your staff that made it happen is poor optics and makes for disgruntled ex-employees

    But 1+2 mean you'll have ex-MS managers entering the job market where they're likely to do significant damage to smaller companies, that can't take the financial hit of their inabilities.

    #MicrosoftLayoffs #PeterPrinciple

    usmu 🍋🏳️‍🌈🤟May 10, 2025

    Het Peter principe: "In een hiërarchie stijgt elke werknemer tot zijn niveau van onbekwaamheid". Je maakt namelijk promotie tot je niet goed genoeg bent om promotie te maken.

    Als mensen dat niveau bereiken, gaan ze, in plaats van het werk dat ze zouden moeten, maar niet kunnen doen, op zoek naar werkzaamheden waarmee ze zichzelf alsnog kunnen rechtvaardigen.

    Zie ook: Minister van Asiel en Migratie Faber; lintjesregen; activiteitenbudget COA

    #politiek #asielbeleid #peterprinciple