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Re:Compromise Creates Values by tikkun on Monday June 19, 2023 @11:20AM (#36392068)
Related:

Company/personal values that don't involve a trade-off are not values

Strategies that don't involve a trade-off are not strategies

A good test is to ask yourself - if this statement was inverted, would it still be plausible?

For example, "hire the best" doesn't make much sense as a value, because it doesn't describe a trade off and the opposite doesn't make sense as a value. Move fast and break things is a reasonable value. Just as move slow and aim for perfection is a reasonable value.

And "build great products by spending more time on R&D than everyone else" is closer to a reasonable strategy, because it can be semi-inverted ("build great products by spending minimal time on R&D but launching as many as possible to see what works") and because it involves a trade-off.

Re:Compromise Creates Values by frogulis on Monday June 19, 2023 @05:55PM (#36396965)
I'm sure I've heard this idea labelled as "anti-values" before but I can't find the post now.

At any rate, I strongly agree with the idea. Values and strategies that don't have a trade-off are not really picking a side and therefore can't help us in times of indecision.