Category: Personal Reflections and Diary

TRUE NERD HUMOR (SURVEY)

(from email today)

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Mr Doolittle. We are conducting a brief survey. …. What are the things that trouble you most during the work day?

Amir

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Mr Amir,

Two things trouble me.

1) The natural incentives held by human beings are self interest and the conservation of energy, so that energy is reserved for what gives them pleasure. And the effort required to focus their energies on the work at hand sufficiently that all members of the group are able to produce a competitive advantage in a product or service in the same time period using the same resources, as other groups at competitors, is counter to their nature and physically and mentally daunting. Therefore work, must be, as well as possible, constructed as a game, the process of which provides entertainment as the way to provide incentives to produce competitive results. However, constructing such a game, requires that we do not create even greater incentives to produce even less visible free-riding, rent seeking, and what we would call ‘corruption’ than whatever disciplinary and reward structure we use at present to facilitate their productivity. It is this primary problem that I try to solve during my day.

2) The primary purpose of any executive is to allocate scarce capital such that the productivity of people and resources, reduces the scarcity of capital, without at any moment, running entirely out of capital.

These are the two things that trouble me.

Curt Doolittle

LAUGHING.

NERD HUMOR.

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