I am often wrong

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63 points | by bcherny 2 hours ago

16 comments

  • cube00 1 hour ago
    I can't say I agree with forcing your team to use your own personal "framework" of approaching a problem or else you'll get "feedback".

    > Sometimes I will give feedback to people when they are missing steps in the framework, or are poorly executing some of the steps. I expect the same feedback in return.

    I also don't like that urgency is built in as the standard process either, no wonder everyone is burnt out.

    > 6. Act with urgency to achieve the goal

    • jsw97 7 minutes ago
      Acting with urgency is a bit at odds with discovering flaws in your plan. If you're sprinting you're less likely to notice smells and things that are inelegant, more likely to paper them over. That said, there is a time for urgency. Just not every single task.
    • adamsb6 12 minutes ago
      It’s basically OODA loop, which is itself just as descriptive of how people act and adjust than it is prescriptive.

      How else would you describe iteratively solving problems?

    • CSSer 38 minutes ago
      But if you don't only surround yourself with people who think exactly like you, how will you ever recruit an army of yes men and women?
  • glimshe 1 hour ago
    Nothing more annoying than a manager with a personal know-it-all framework requiring people to follow it or else they get "feedback".
    • dofm 1 hour ago
      He's often wrong, don't you know.

      Just not about your performance review.

  • jascha_eng 27 minutes ago
    That's what it took to finally support Agents.md I guess. Boris had to blog about having made a mistake.

    How about you stop taking things so personal instead and let others steer more.

  • Imanari 38 minutes ago
    Steps 1–5 of his framework are increasingly formal ways of saying “figure out what’s going on before doing something,” followed by step 6: “then do it fast”
    • verdverm 13 minutes ago
      “let Claude figure out what’s going on before doing something”

      “then ask Claude to do it fast with no mistakes”

      (edited for accuracy)

  • otterley 57 minutes ago
    This seems strongly aligned with the Amazon doc-writing and decision making process. I found it to be unusually effective as a business process, and took it with me when I left to my current role.

    Making thoroughly informed decisions and iterating on a decision doc before committing to a direction and plan is better than every alternative I’ve ever observed in my career.

    The criticism I’ve read thus far on this thread seems unwarranted. I give the same kind of feedback to my mentees when their work product or process could use improvement.

  • 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 39 minutes ago
    Unlike me, 56 and yet to be wrong once.
  • ks2048 16 minutes ago
    > I love being wrong

    I prefer being right, but to each their own.

    • kragen 13 minutes ago
      I like being right so much that, when I'm wrong, I change my mind, despite how embarrassing that is.
  • someguy101010 12 minutes ago
    a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds
  • 0gs 57 minutes ago
    i am pretty sure it would just be "wrong," not "meta-wrong," and given the title, i am giving myself the point.
    • rzzzt 4 minutes ago
      I am not even wrong.
  • well_ackshually 43 minutes ago
    I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Me me me me me me

    This is what happens when you let things get to your head. You work on a (highly inefficient, often broken) piece of extremely basic software by prompting a slot machine and hoping it works. Calm down and stop forcing your shitty framework on employees, you're the most replaceable cog of all.

  • Avicebron 49 minutes ago
    7. Reflect on that goal?
  • atoav 7 minutes ago
    [delayed]
  • verdverm 2 hours ago
    sorry, but when you reach certain levels of influence, you need to slow down, be more methodical, and not be so flippant
  • DIXOR 2 hours ago
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