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Your argument boils down to 'the productivity metrics are broken'. But since I think we're talking about GDP basically, I doubt you're right. TFA argues that p
by zaroth 10y ago
Your argument boils down to 'the productivity metrics are broken'. But since I think we're talking about GDP basically, I doubt you're right.
TFA argues that productivity is squandered by Office Space style ass-covering wastes of time. But I think even good intentioned beaurocratic nonsense can still account for the strong headwind against productivity.
Take a look at the great improvements in supply chain management and JIT manufacturing techniques for true process improvements which result in measurable productivity rise. Kanban works there in ways it simply does not for software, for example.
- Bartweiss 10y agoSimilarly, "good" overhead like A/B testing can suck up an enormous amount of time without producing anything useful. Badly-executed A/B tests are an easy way to show single-digit "gains" over and over again without ever producing actual movement, and since executing them well is genuinely difficult there are a lot of companies which are running frantically on a treadmill. There's a lot of business 'motion' that's fundamentally a mismatch between something looking good at an individual level, and achieving nothing on a corporate or national scale.