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> If you have a hand of cards you want to optimize it makes sense to keep discarding and redrawing your worst cards. But this makes sense _in a game with a fix
by abeppu 5y ago
> If you have a hand of cards you want to optimize it makes sense to keep discarding and redrawing your worst cards.
But this makes sense _in a game with a fixed hand size_. But a company's staff should grow over time. So shouldn't one have an ROI-based criteria where you want each team member to help grow generate meaningfully more revenue than they cost to employ. If my "lowest" performing team members still make meaningfully more money than they cost to employ, they still increase my ability to hire more.
- pythonaut_16 5y agoIsn't that the point of the end of that comment?
- abeppu 5y ago> Of course teams of employees with emotions and institutional knowledge are a bit more complex than a hand of cards, but that has never stopped bad management strategies. This acknowledges that the "optimizing a hand of cards" analogy leaves out factors -- which is true. My point is, even if there were no emotions or institutional knowledge, even if I had a "staff" of AI agents or robots whose "knowledge" could be fluidly copy-pasted, the "optimizing a hand of cards" analogy is poor, because a robot that makes money is worth keeping even if there are better robots out there. An army of low-but-positive ROI robots can help me buy a high ROI robot.