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Eric Rasmusen: /* Instructions */

2025-01-20T01:26:00Z

‎Instructions

2024-12-31T14:40:45Z

‎Incentives

2024-02-11T04:51:09Z

‎Firing People

2023-04-26T14:12:53Z

‎Firing Peope

2023-04-26T14:04:14Z

‎Firing Peope

2022-11-27T02:44:43Z

‎Juniors and Seniors

2022-10-11T13:37:57Z

‎Meetings

2022-05-17T15:23:30Z

‎Meetings

2022-04-04T17:39:33Z

‎Leadership

2022-04-04T01:06:12Z

‎Juniors and Seniors

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	*Do not give so many instructions orally that the worker will confuse them and forget them all, including the very first steps.		*Do not give so many instructions orally that the worker will confuse them and forget them all, including the very first steps.
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		+	*[https://x.com/paulg/status/1881139792513216631 Tyler Alterman @TylerAlterman]
		+	Jan 18, 2025)
		+	In college I would ignore the instructions for assignments and instead create something vaguely on topic but much more interesting than whatever the professor asked for. I got an A every single time. This is broadly applicable to the rest of life.
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		+	Paul Graham
		+	@paulg
		+	Or more precisely, you can optimize the rest of life by seeking out the places where it's applicable.
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		+	Right-- he is giving terrible advice for most jobs. It is rotten advice when:
		+	1. Your boss is of ordinary intelligence, and wants it done the right way, meaning the standard way.
		+	2. You are in a bureaucracy, corporate or otherwise where rules are used to manage employees who 90% of the time would do something dumb if they followed Mr. Alternam's advice.
		+	3. Your boss is highly intelligent, and you didn't see why it was he set the task in the way he did.
		+	It is nonetheless good advice for some things. I am a professor and I would react well to a studnet who did this. My research assistant tried it thrice last week and failed twice (case 3), succeeded once.

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 *"Founder of Trader Joe's set up a bonus system where overperforming store managers are the highest compensated employees of the business — more than those at HQ. He wanted to avoid any incentives for them to want to get into the bureaucracy."
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		+	*"Founder of Trader Joe's set up a bonus system where overperforming store managers are the highest compensated employees of the business — more than those at HQ. He wanted to avoid any incentives for them to want to get into the bureaucracy."

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 *A management adage: every person has some use within the organization. It'sjust a matter of figuring out where to use him.
-    My thought: some people may seem totally useless, but if you're on a sleigh trying to outpace a pack of wolves, they will still prove useful.
 *[https://twitter.com/girdley/status/1464269525780766720 Michael Girdley says:]

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 *[https://twitter.com/girdley/status/1464269525780766720 Michael Girdley says:]
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 Junior people have to remember it's their job to save the senior person's time, even if it takes ten junior minutes to save one senior minute.
 Is there a good writeup of the job of "chief of staff": someone who decides what decisions to bring from juniors to the boss, and how to state them? It's a bit like how a solicitor interprets clients for barristers.
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 ==Meetings==
 * After you make a decision, in a meeting or a discussion, stop talking about the reasons for it, or whether it was a good or bad decision. If you say to somebody, "SHall we do X?" and they say, "Yes," don't go on to tell them why X is a good idea. They agree, so don't waste time discussing why you two agree.
 *{{Quotation| Every meeting should end with a survey of the participants asking if they felt the meeting was a waste of time or not.

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-*A leader has to be willing to make bad decisions with insufficient information and brains, even though he will look like an idiot. We followers can avoid that risk. So be kind to your leaders.
+*"A leader has to be willing to make bad decisions with insufficient information and brains, even though he will look like an idiot. We followers  should forgive our leaders."
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	Is there a good writeup of the job of "chief of staff": someone who decides what decisions to bring from juniors to the boss, and how to state them? It's a bit like how a solicitor interprets clients for barristers.		Is there a good writeup of the job of "chief of staff": someone who decides what decisions to bring from juniors to the boss, and how to state them? It's a bit like how a solicitor interprets clients for barristers.

		+	==Leadership==
		+	*A leader has to be willing to make bad decisions with insufficient information and brains, even though he will look like an idiot. We followers can avoid that risk. So be kind to your leaders.
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