Middle Management
Step into the world of corporations, cubicles, and “circling back”, mythical concepts that had only existed in the lores. (Don’t ask us about Discord access sorry; they don’t pay us enough!)
@errorgardener
We run A/b tests because the C/D tests always came back with too many “deez” in the dataset
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@resipsa
content control in Word docs that came from Google Docs sometimes really make me want to drink hemlock
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@resipsa
::saboteur management::
when i was in high school a lady told me “some things worth doing are worth doing mediocrely”. it takes some wisdom to know which things are worth what, but to think everything can be perfect under-appreciates the scarcity of time.
take the permission to not let perfection turn into complete debilitation because otherwise that’s actually pretty bad.
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@resipsa
things that someone with certain obsessive compulsive tendencies might notice:
1. in corporate America people are looking for “maybe a little sloppy but mostly pretty good” and if your stuff is perfect you are probably not efficient enough
2. practicing attorneys generally do not write memos as well as law students. it is not a knock on practicing lawyers— when rent is due the obsession over how elegant your IRAC format is or hyper-paranoia around whether you italicized the right commas are not real concerns
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@aviationdoctor.eth
PMF is not just for founders. The older a corporate employee gets, the more crucial internal PMF is to justify their existence and salary.
I’ve had many bright colleagues just burn out or wash out because their skills were no longer the perfect fit, and it gets exponentially harder to pivot with age and comp
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@resipsa
before Gen Zs got to say “yassss kween” in the workplace millenials had to first spend ten years drilling in this monumental Lean In and The Devil Wears Prada era takeaway:
bosses: do rad stuff
girl bosses: do rad stuff but in pink
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