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> yet they seem easily replicable At a former job, we had a rule that if someone claimed something was easy or trivial or the like, they were assigned to accom
by otterley 3y ago
> yet they seem easily replicable
At a former job, we had a rule that if someone claimed something was easy or trivial or the like, they were assigned to accomplish it.
- pjmorris 3y agoIn my house we have a rule that if someone proposes some 'easy or trivial' labor in addition to the current workload, the other can say 'Have at it.'
- sph 3y agoDunning-Kruger in action: people with little knowledge of how much effort it is to run even a trivial business think they can do it in a weekend. I've been working solo on a SaaS of my own and I've been 1 month away from launch since December 2022. It looked so trivial when I had the brilliant idea, now I'm so deep I might as well take it to completion. Hopefully next month. Never again will I forget that ideas in a vacuum are worthless compared to the blood, sweat and tears of running a business.
- GuB-42 3y agoI would definitely abuse that rule to do the tasks I want to do. "Writing a VR visualizer is easy, the only hard part is documentation..."
- TeMPOraL 3y agoSoftware part is often the easy part. Take e.g. Spotify. The music player is easy to replicate, but it also isn't the company's moat. The record label deals are, and good luck replicating those.
- qup 3y agoPlease enforce this rule on my dad. He recently told me I should take apart his garbage disposal to remove some kind of problem because it would only take about 5 minutes. My dad doesn't own a screwdriver.
- tomcam 3y agoNothing my dad, rest his soul, told me would take only 5 minutes ever took 5 minutes or less. Ever. He was an English teacher but he should have been a software developer, given his ability to estimate project deadlines.