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  • pete avatar

    American aristocracy could learn some things from the old world. A big American founding myth is that we eliminated the aristocracy from our government, but the real American innovation is making it much easier to join the aristocracy starting as an outsider. 

    Sure, great. A little closer to meritocracy, one hopes. 

    But governance is complex enough that you’d ideally want to be trained from birth to do it. Programs of similar intensity to olympic training, for example. 

    That was a potential upside of the previous method. You had a limited set of preselected kids who were almost certainly going to rule one day, so you could put them through the training to do so. It often worked pretty well.

    Now anyone who is good at twitter can ostensibly rule without knowing anything about how to do it. 

    Remember Boaty McBoatface? Our current timeline is the spiritual equivalent of running an internet poll to determine who is in charge of a nuclear reactor. Except orders of magnitudes more reckless and dangerous than that. 

     We need a better synthesis. 

    #DeepTakes

    blakeSA•...
    Thanks, this is helping me remember the amount of headroom we have on designing a training program that's better than what e.g. GW Bush happened to go through....
    experimentation
    startups
    civics and government
    training programs
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  • jordan avatar

    The Relateful Company should embrace more job titles. We’re under-appreciating orange.

    We’ve included the green critiques, like the classic:

    What gets measured gets managed — even when it’s pointless to measure and manage it, and even if it harms the purpose of the organisation to do so - V. F. Ridgway, 1956

    But we need to embrace more healthy competition, striving for excellence, even rankings.

    one way we can do this is to make more liberal use of titles, and brag on people. @Valerie Daniel is the MANAGING DIRECTOR, and we should have her listed as such in emails and things

    What else is healthy orange and how can we transclude it?
    What do we already do that is already healthy orange?

    jordanSA•...
    fwiw, re believability scores (and somewhat defensively) I believe we’ve always planned to do A/B testing. There was never, ever the thought that we’d stick with the first set of anything—scoring 1-5 versus 1-10 versus 1-7; the particular categories, looking at where they grouped...
    communication
    team collaboration
    research methodology
    a/b testing
    experimentation
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