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The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office” https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office
by derwiki 5y ago
The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office”
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/ https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
Read it a decade later than I should have, though
- TheCapeGreek 5y agoDeveloper Hegemony references it and might be up your alley: https://daedtech.com/developer-hegemony-revisited-and-a-free-copy-if-you-like/ https://daedtech.com/developer-hegemony-revisited-and-a-free...
- k__ 5y agoSame here. It was an eye-opener for me. This logic of alpha/beta/omega always seemed incomplete to me. The Gervais principle seems to capture reality better, the losers are the ones that form groups where people can be categorized as alpha/beta/omega etc. and the clueless and sociopaths act completely outside of such groups. For the worse (clueless) or the better (sociopaths) of themselves. Funny enough, lately alpha/beta/omega logic includes a "sigma", which is the ham-fisted try to add sociopaths to their flawed system.