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I love your comment, but I think it does miss out on some important concepts. I used to think when I first started my company that I could just do every part o

I love your comment, but I think it does miss out on some important concepts. I used to think when I first started my company that I could just do every part of it far better than anyone else. I would push on my employees pretty hard and often denigrate their efforts. As the company is continued to grow, I now have 180 full-time employees. The reason I have all these people is that they can do enormously more work than I can and most of them are now better at doing their individual job than I am. I think your comment visits are tendency as tech people to view ourselves in the best possible light, and to view other people as not as good. We especially tend to view projects we do as big and very complex and project done by others as not impressive.

asdf21 7y ago
The question is, are you auditing the final work being done by your "teams" and asking whether it could have been done more efficiently / simply?
tcgv 7y ago
> view ourselves in the best possible light, and to view other people as not as good Remembered me of this cognitive bias: "Overestimating Our Own Importance" [1] [1] "Psychology of Intelligence Analysis", Chapter 11. Available at: - https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/psychology-of-intelligence-analysis/art14.html https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...