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Nice. If you can automate the observation, you can automate your observance of the observation. The symmetry is great. It’s even kind of poetic, because the m
by travisgriggs 5y ago
Nice.
If you can automate the observation, you can automate your observance of the observation. The symmetry is great.
It’s even kind of poetic, because the more creative type of person who is less valued as a drone is the type of person to extend the effort to do this, whereas the clock-in-clock-out type with less investment and motivation is less likely. Sort of a “if you’re clever/motivated enough to end run it, your clever enough to not need this anyway.”
- theshrike79 5y ago> If you can automate the observation, you can automate your observance of the observation. The symmetry is great. Never measure the productivity of engineers with plain numbers. They will just take it as a challenge on how to optimise for that particular measurement.
- wayoutthere 5y agoNot even engineers; this is true of all business. Any metric defined quickly becomes a goal whether it was intended to or not. Once you attach incentives to the metric, it will be focused on to the exclusion of everything else.
- nlake906 5y agoEasier said than done, but if you can manage to set up the metric to align the business and the employee, life becomes very easy for management. Working on designing and implementing production-based pay systems in warehouses, when it goes right the department runs itself with barebones management as a little profit generating machine that fairly pays workers a very good wage. When it goes wrong though...
- wayoutthere 5y agoYeah, the problem comes in when the dynamic changes and you’ve overoptimized for the old dynamic and don’t have any ability to flex within the systems without totally overhauling them. Hence the current supply chain problems…
- vladf 5y agoWhat about adding a captcha?
- jack_pp 5y agothere are captcha solving services
- sigio 5y agoOutsource it to amazon mechanical turk, or something equivalent ;) Pay a dollar to have someone else fill it in.
- justinlloyd 5y agoSimple CAPTCHA work pays 3 cents. Ask me how I know.
- throway453sde 5y ago> If you can automate the observation, you can automate your observance of the observation. The symmetry is great. Nice quote.
- marcosdumay 5y ago> if you’re clever/motivated enough to end run it, your clever enough to not need this anyway. Except that controlling people changes their motivations.