There is enough social psychology research to suggest that most of the time people are more efficient alone than in a group, although some tasks take more than one person. Process gain vs process loss, social loafing, groupthink, etc., if you put four people on a team you might get 200%, not 400% return, or worse.
Interesting, for complex tasks that require thought, the most efficient grouping tends to involve groups with diverse backgrounds and a work culture that values disagreement… which is basically the opposite of what’s going on in American government right now, lol.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
This seems true only on short time scales, and in corporate work structures. On long time scales and with more collaborative, voluntary work structures, a group of people working together and supporting each other will almost certainly outperform a disorganized collection of non-communicative individuals. We can see this is true because, yaknow, society exists.
They wouldn’t do it right anyway
I work alone, i make my own hours mostly, I see my supervisor once a week and my boss maybe once a year, it’s glorious as an introvert
Same here, I have to do a team meeting everyday but that’s audio only. Other than that, I do a waste day (office day) once a month and half the time my supervisor cuts that by half. I haven’t seen my manager since December and the department head since September.
It’s been six years and my supervisor learned a long time ago that if you just tell me what to do and then leave me alone, it will get done. If I run into an issue I’ll reach out, but otherwise you won’t hear from me until I’m done.
Many loads are lighter if not divided.
Introverts make great leaders.
Why use ai to generate something that has been created before numerous times in the past? God, I hate this future.
then there’s me. sitting in the cart with a stick pushing myself along.
completely unaware that the track abruptly ends in 300 feet and I have zero brakes.
my ass going through a whole blender course to learn how to change a tiny thing instead of asking the person who made it for help
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