Nod. I maybe want to distinguish between “the organization goodharts itself as it grows, via a recursive hiring/promoting/enculturation mechanism that is strong that the size/bureaucracy would naively predict”, vs “the organization is increasingly run by sociopaths” (via that same mechanism). It sounds like you’re saying your experience didn’t really match either hypothesis, but checking in about the distinction.
Yeah that’s correct on both counts (that does seem like an important distinction, and neither really match my experience, though the former is more similar).
Nod. I maybe want to distinguish between “the organization goodharts itself as it grows, via a recursive hiring/promoting/enculturation mechanism that is strong that the size/bureaucracy would naively predict”, vs “the organization is increasingly run by sociopaths” (via that same mechanism). It sounds like you’re saying your experience didn’t really match either hypothesis, but checking in about the distinction.
Yeah that’s correct on both counts (that does seem like an important distinction, and neither really match my experience, though the former is more similar).