My small experience of non small work groups also taught me a few things:
- nobody wants to come to work (duh but hold on)
- above points creates a constant laziness drag
- the system maintains some socially / somatically critical functions
- hierarchy is function of criticality, the more important, the higher it's gonna propagate
- the rest is fluff that can be delayed, forgotten, half assed
- learn the critical functions by heart, never ever miss them
- to spot them check whenever your superior comes down, and when he talks about his/her superior coming down (remember, people don't care, they don't wanna be here, they never want to come down unless they're forced to)
- then crack jokes with your colleagues
- everybody will ignore you doing nothing, unless critical functions are rolling
ps: your point about hiring/culture-fit is a sad realization to me, they could have told me so after HS.. instead of learning sublinear Fibonacci computations during a master, I'd have spent one year at burning man to be chill. All in all, I kinda agree about the need to fit, humans cannot operate nice if they don't click with their colleagues, it's only gonna lead to walking pressure cookers who cannot make progress. But the lack of honesty around this is staggering
- nobody wants to come to work (duh but hold on)
- above points creates a constant laziness drag
- the system maintains some socially / somatically critical functions
- hierarchy is function of criticality, the more important, the higher it's gonna propagate
- the rest is fluff that can be delayed, forgotten, half assed
- learn the critical functions by heart, never ever miss them
- to spot them check whenever your superior comes down, and when he talks about his/her superior coming down (remember, people don't care, they don't wanna be here, they never want to come down unless they're forced to)
- then crack jokes with your colleagues
- everybody will ignore you doing nothing, unless critical functions are rolling
ps: your point about hiring/culture-fit is a sad realization to me, they could have told me so after HS.. instead of learning sublinear Fibonacci computations during a master, I'd have spent one year at burning man to be chill. All in all, I kinda agree about the need to fit, humans cannot operate nice if they don't click with their colleagues, it's only gonna lead to walking pressure cookers who cannot make progress. But the lack of honesty around this is staggering