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You can't really exercise judgement about a context you can't fathom. It'd be like a person who's never been to Japan, never studied Japanese, and only read ab
by newsbinator 8y ago
You can't really exercise judgement about a context you can't fathom.
It'd be like a person who's never been to Japan, never studied Japanese, and only read about Japan in popular magazines or seen news reports on tv exercising judgement about how Japanese society should be run.
Sure, he'd have the right people below him. But he'd have no idea if what they're telling him makes any sense, and often his intuition about what he's hearing would be wrong, because he'd be using analogies that don't/can't fit.
That's how you get into "internet is a series of tubes" territory.
- crispyambulance 8y ago> But he'd have no idea if what they're telling him makes any sense, and often his intuition about what he's hearing would be wrong, because he'd be using analogies that don't/can't fit. That all depends on how much trust and responsibility he puts into the hands of his subordinates. In a way, it's like dividing a role into several people. He handles the government-side, the domain experts handle their sides. A micro-manager, of course, would be a disaster in such a position but it can work with the right people and organizational structures.