Cal Newport

It's like this local minimum.

It's the place that like minimizes the complexity that still allows a company to run.

And I think that's why we keep falling back in mathematical terms as a suboptimal Nash equilibrium.

It's not the optimal way to work together, but no one person can leave it and make their situation better.

It's a low energy state.

It's a, it's an attractor.

It's a local minimum in the utility landscape, whatever mathematical metaphor we want to use.

And so it's,

It's not arbitrary.

I was like, oh, it's like a law of work physics.

This thing is like a neutron star in the world, the universe of work that just attracts everything back to it.

And it takes a huge amount of energy to escape its pull.

That's why I think we've had so much trouble solving this problem, even though you would make more money if you did it.

Yeah, it works, especially though, what really makes that more sustainable is if you have that quick morning standup on the team scale at the beginning of the day, where everyone says, here's what I'm going to be working on during these morning hours.

Here's what I need from each other to make progress on this.

So what would have unfolded over Slack and email, you're doing in 10 minutes.

So you say, okay, here's what I'm working on this morning.

I'm working on the new white paper.

Here's what I need though.

I need those figures from you