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.
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.