One of the advantages of being early in your career is that you're on the outside of things. People talk to you and tell you the truth because you don't have any power.

When you have power, people would tell you what they think you want to hear. Sometimes you'll get someone who will tell you just the right things to try to manipulate you into exercising your power to further their goals. Neither is particularly helpful.

But early on, you don't have to worry about that.

One of the perverse realities of life is that the more success you have, the more authority you get, the more decisions you make, and the less perspective you have.

The closer you get to the center of something, the less you can see the shape of it.

Pushing someone to do better requires wagering some or all of your relationship capital with them.

If you're wrong, you could lose your whole stake. If you're right, you could double your bet.

But this requires that you built up the relationship capital before deciding to use it.

Jocko on Episode 135 of the podcast talks about not trying to hog credit and:

So, the reason [extreme ownership] works, is because I'm not out there doing it for me. That's the big difference.

So if you're out there, thinking "Ah, cool, I'm gonna learn these tactics so I can get further in my life and I can get things out of the world." It's like, no, it's not gonna work out

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Goodhart's law is

an adage named after economist Charles Goodhart, which has been phrased by Marilyn Strathern as "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

If you know the rubric you will be graded on, in a sufficiently competitive landscape, it becomes adaptive to spend less energy seeming to comply with the rubric than actually doing the work the rubric measures.

Seneca, Letter 22:

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

I graduated from NC State University in 2011, so I still see news about it come across my feed, like this item talking about leveling and rebuilding the main gym on campus, right across the street from the student center that was also just leveled and rebuilt. What surprised me was the way that the renovation was being spun.

“Yes, we do need new fitness space, but it’s more than that. Our design has