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...uth mindset, those who hold it are fundamentally lost. The mindset implies that ground truth doesn't exist or matter. Perception obviously matters–people make decisions based not on the world as it exists, but their model of the world (their ...
... and the team, possibly only coherent to the kayfabe), or is it momentum in the ground truth reality? Momentum that's just motion might be bad motion. An OODA loop is mainly about the loop; it's possible the observation step is coherent with ...
...are your thing with the world. That's the moment of the truth: when the idea is ground truthed, and shown to be viable or non-viable. The longer you've been working on the idea in a cave, the more likely the idea is non-viable. Perhaps you've...
...arket and the internal petty politics. The need to compete in the market is the ground truth; if the company doesn't create value and successfully compete against competitors it will not survive. It's a grueling slog, and it can be painful, b...
... The further they do this, the more catastrophic the explosion will be when the ground truth inevitably punches them in the face.
...verything is done for perception first and foremost. The kayfabe overwhelms the ground truth. Everyone is hyper aware of how everyone else perceives everything. A Stanford ish late stage vibe: "I need to be a Google APM or I'm going to die" "...
Kayfabe looks imposing but is actually brittle, like glass. When ground truth touches it with the slightest force it will shatter. The bigger the kayfabe gets, the more that momentum it has, the harder it is to touch ground tru...
Ground truthing in organizations happens mainly at offsites. Time together non-transactionally and overnight. Time to whisper and gossip in a friendly way with ev...
...ll bits of signal that stand out from the background noise Humans are a form of ground truth, pinning down what's valuable / useful. If you have humans in the loop and the signal can pop out of the general noise, you get a very powerful, self...
...he useful variance is what stands out. That's a consistent edge imparted by the ground truth of the universe. That strong consistency of a subset is what makes it pops at the level of the population. Usefulness gives a consistent edge, and th...
...nces that are useful in the world. A weak but consistent alignment based on the ground truth of useful utterances in the real world, which allows that inherent structure to pop out at scale. People say things in the real world to make things ...
...bly. The game is the emergent kayfabe taking on a life of its own; terraforming ground truth to its own internal logic. No one wants to play the game. If you don't play the game, then you are knocked out of the game. The game produces nothing...
...s to feedback means less likely to be viable when you finally interact with the ground truth of the real world. But also every bit of investment you do before viability might lock in non-viable constraints. When you invest incrementally in a ...
...r example the farmer doing the animal husbandry. In natural selection, it's the ground truth of natural selection. Natural selection is fully emergent; it must be so. Things that are more likely to survive or replicate are more likely to be m...
The only hope of surviving the ground truth is to have continual exposure to it.
...more and more from an echo chamber and thus brittle. Removing yourself from the ground truth makes it so that when you interact with the ground truth again you won't be strong enough to survive it any more. It is only via continual interactio...
...those interactions come to dominate, to take all of the attention away from the ground truth, from the outside world. The attention that must be paid to navigate the inner world is the maintenance cost of the organization. The activities the ...
...ws in any organization of sufficient size. The kayfabe has delaminated from the ground truth. If you privately point out the ground truth, a leader will pull you aside and say something like: "We know the official plan is not perfect. It has ...
...authority cannot be coerced. If it's formal authority then it can skew from the ground truth reality. But the prime emergent directive is to act like your manager is correct, even if you don't believe it. If you don't, your boss can fire you ...
...s most immediately important for survival of the idea in that context), and the ground truth is increasingly forgotten. Every successful organization's selection pressures inadvertently are pulled inward, into the internal social structure. I...