Ehh my experience trying to hang a picture says otherwise. I got a stud detector that just beeps when it feels like and still haven’t really figured out what material my walls are made of. Claude has it narrowed down to like 14 different possibilities. A kitchen reno is also a highly regulated task where I live https://www.nyc.gov/site/buildings/property-or-business-owner/renovating-kitchens-bathrooms.page not to mention additional HOA rules since you’re affecting people above you, below you, and next to you. Plus my building has an “ancient pipes” problem and during renos they require you to fix plumbing as you go. Electric work would probably intimidate me because you have to wait and see if your house doesn’t catch fire to find out if you did it right or not.
Conversely I just haven’t renovated it because all the problems you said with delegating still hold.
I did manage to caulk my bathroom, looks awful but less roaches now.
Seems like you missed the point of the post? Last 2 paragraphs
Knowing how to perform a task yourself at all is not the same as knowing how to perform it as well as the person you are delegating the task to. The goal is not to ensure that competence across every work-relevant dimension strictly declines as you go down the organizational hierarchy. You frequently will, and should, delegate to people who are 10x faster, or 10x better at a task than you are yourself.
But by knowing how to perform a task yourself, if slowly or more jankily than your delegees, you will maintain the ability to set realistic performance standards, jump in and keep pushing on the task if it becomes an organizational bottleneck, and audit systems and automations that are produced as part of working on the task. This will take you a bunch of time, and often feel like it detracts from more urgent priorities, but is worth the high cost.
I get that, really the concerning example is electrical. That’s a bad task to be confident about “knowing how to perform a task yourself at all” and the problem isn’t “slowly or jankily”, it’s safety.
OP sounds overconfident given the stakes in electrical and illegibility of whether you did it safely. If they really want to push back against me, the most concrete way to do that is to write a case study on how they did their own electrical. And why not? It puts a lot of teeth on their thesis if they can do it successfully, might teach me something, and they either win the debate or learn about a real possible error they should fix.
Ehh my experience trying to hang a picture says otherwise. I got a stud detector that just beeps when it feels like and still haven’t really figured out what material my walls are made of. Claude has it narrowed down to like 14 different possibilities. A kitchen reno is also a highly regulated task where I live https://www.nyc.gov/site/buildings/property-or-business-owner/renovating-kitchens-bathrooms.page not to mention additional HOA rules since you’re affecting people above you, below you, and next to you. Plus my building has an “ancient pipes” problem and during renos they require you to fix plumbing as you go. Electric work would probably intimidate me because you have to wait and see if your house doesn’t catch fire to find out if you did it right or not.
Conversely I just haven’t renovated it because all the problems you said with delegating still hold.
I did manage to caulk my bathroom, looks awful but less roaches now.
Seems like you missed the point of the post? Last 2 paragraphs
I get that, really the concerning example is electrical. That’s a bad task to be confident about “knowing how to perform a task yourself at all” and the problem isn’t “slowly or jankily”, it’s safety.
OP sounds overconfident given the stakes in electrical and illegibility of whether you did it safely. If they really want to push back against me, the most concrete way to do that is to write a case study on how they did their own electrical. And why not? It puts a lot of teeth on their thesis if they can do it successfully, might teach me something, and they either win the debate or learn about a real possible error they should fix.