John Siracusa

That's great.

I would love it even more if Ternus was telling everybody who would listen to him, we've got a design problem.

We need to fix it.

And then the people said to him, oh, okay, well, if you think we have a design problem, you go fix it.

And he's like, fine, I will.

And that's how you move up the chain.

Of course, every executive doesn't want their underlings to bring them problems.

It's not a unique thing to Tim Cook.

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.