Monospace Mentor📖 Interesting read: ""Collaboration" is bullshit."
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/collaboration-is-bullshit/
#leadership #collaboration
Kai Klostermann@monospace I disagree here. The essay is built on a general assumption. Which is, that there is one metric to measure "output". The rifle being fired, a system being used etc. This is, in fact, not the case. If I measure every individual by the same metric, yes, you will always find the 80% slackers. However, they serve a different purpose. There are hires that are only there to keep the atmosphere positive, the ice broken etc. 1/n
@monospace If I measure the same people that produce output with the least bug density with that metric, they would (probably) suck.
Hence, I can conclude: 20% of the people keep the culture flowing, the rest just keeps their heads down.
However, it's unfair to measure like this. The only important metrics are measured by team. It is the composition. And yes, making this composition collaborate, is hard. However, concluding that the enablement for this is just "overhead" is almost ignorant 2/n
@monospace If I would apply the same narrative to tools that "those" engineers actually favour, the story would be way different. Why do we need git? It just creates overhead. Why do you need Neovim? Notepad does the trick. Testing? Nope, it does not do anything for the team culture.
Disclaimer: this is not my opinion, it is just an analogy to make a point. :D
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@monospace Sorry, that was kind of "reply guy," but I couldn't resist the urge here.
@monospace TL;DR: The 80% were busy enabling the 20% to shoot, not lazy.