John Siracusa

That's just part of it.

being management, the whole point is the people below you should be solving their problem.

Anyway.

Yeah.

But he's just saying he doesn't want to be a referee for a bunch of infighting below them.

Like there's a balance.

And then when they say, don't bring me problems, it's kind of like, look, it's your job to work this out.

Like don't, don't involve, don't constantly run to daddy when you have any kind of conflict because that's exhausting for me.

And it's not you people doing your job.

Obviously there's a balance.

Obviously things do bubble up and there's decision-making at top, but like,

That attitude is trying to discourage the anti-pattern, which is anytime there's any kind of issue and people can't agree, they immediately run up the org chart and say, well, fine, our boss will decide for both of us.

And it's like, that's not a scalable system either.

I don't know what you've heard about the don't bring me problems thing, but I feel like that is mostly a healthy dynamic within companies.

And it's not saying never bring me problems.

It's not saying I'll never make any opinion.

It's just saying...

Part of being at this level of management is taking responsibility and working things out amongst yourself, which is, you know, why, like, the forestall thing and everything.

It's like, we can't have this thing where every time anything comes up, you two fight tooth and nail and immediately run to me and say, decide which one of us do you love more.

Like, with every decision, that's not tenable.