When you work at multiple organizations, you can factor out the kayfabe to surf it.

Kayfabe within an organization is like gravity: omnipresent.

You just take it for granted as always working that way.

It blends into the background, something that you can't see even when looking directly at it.

But the specific flavor of kayfabe within a given organization will differ.

This means that if you spend all of your time in one organizational environment you might overfit to it.

Your intuitions get increasingly poorly suited to other domains.

But if you've spent time in two organizations (or ideally more), the kayfabe pops out to you from the difference, almost like a magic eye picture.

Once you can see it, you can now navigate it, and surf it.

Instead of it jostling you around, you can ride it towards better outcomes.

Another example of where having one foot inside a system and one foot outside allows you leverage.