I can imagine the effort it must have taken to express this important but simple relationship. I've always felt it from my childhood as a truth but never been that good at explaining it
Now I'm the South of India it felt chaotic but there was definitely a pattern, a flow that came from shared responsibility. It was your responsibility to not hit the person in front of or beside you. All else was noise.
Recently, I started thinking about the root cause of burnout in IT operations jobs (SRE/Platform Engineering, etc.). I'm pretty aware that some problems are universal, and I don't want to say that IT operations is particularly worse or special. But I think there are some patterns that are more common in some jobs than others. In my opinion, IT operations teams are set up in such a way that they have full responsibility but zero authority.
I hope your article will reach as many senior executives as possible since it's a very nice, more general explanation of this problem.
Good analogy, made me think of the pizza delivery scenes in Snowcrash. I have a shaky relationship with authority because more often than not it has been about control and oversight when I always felt like I'd put in the work to earn nurturing and trust instead. I want my leader's to be my mentors, not my micromanaging overlords. From what I've experienced in my career, too many people who end up in positions of power and influence just don't understand the power of trust, keeping an open mind, and letting people shine their own light.
Hey there, I just subbed to your Substack, good stuff. I went ahead and recommended you to our readers, who I teach about AI code generation. I hope it helps more people find your stuff.
I can imagine the effort it must have taken to express this important but simple relationship. I've always felt it from my childhood as a truth but never been that good at explaining it
Now I'm the South of India it felt chaotic but there was definitely a pattern, a flow that came from shared responsibility. It was your responsibility to not hit the person in front of or beside you. All else was noise.
Recently, I started thinking about the root cause of burnout in IT operations jobs (SRE/Platform Engineering, etc.). I'm pretty aware that some problems are universal, and I don't want to say that IT operations is particularly worse or special. But I think there are some patterns that are more common in some jobs than others. In my opinion, IT operations teams are set up in such a way that they have full responsibility but zero authority.
I hope your article will reach as many senior executives as possible since it's a very nice, more general explanation of this problem.
I love your metaphor: so clear and intense! I am going to … reuse it (with attribution). :-)
Good analogy, made me think of the pizza delivery scenes in Snowcrash. I have a shaky relationship with authority because more often than not it has been about control and oversight when I always felt like I'd put in the work to earn nurturing and trust instead. I want my leader's to be my mentors, not my micromanaging overlords. From what I've experienced in my career, too many people who end up in positions of power and influence just don't understand the power of trust, keeping an open mind, and letting people shine their own light.
Hey there, I just subbed to your Substack, good stuff. I went ahead and recommended you to our readers, who I teach about AI code generation. I hope it helps more people find your stuff.
Have a good weekend!