Thanks for the link. Wish I’d read it earlier! That’s a much better exposition of what I was trying to express here. :)
I do think that there’s complication beyond even the two-layer model presented in “Studies on Slack”. For example, maybe my company gives a lot of slack and looks at my value-add on a 5-year timeframe. At the same time, I have little personal slack around my annual bonus because I need to pay off loans. Perhaps the culture I live in has some different level of slack in its expectations for work. Although the two-layer model is a useful simplification, I’m not sure that the actual interactions are so neatly hierarchical.
I mostly agree with this—see eg https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/12/studies-on-slack/
Thanks for the link. Wish I’d read it earlier! That’s a much better exposition of what I was trying to express here. :)
I do think that there’s complication beyond even the two-layer model presented in “Studies on Slack”. For example, maybe my company gives a lot of slack and looks at my value-add on a 5-year timeframe. At the same time, I have little personal slack around my annual bonus because I need to pay off loans. Perhaps the culture I live in has some different level of slack in its expectations for work. Although the two-layer model is a useful simplification, I’m not sure that the actual interactions are so neatly hierarchical.