🔗 Posthog: Collaboration sucks

An entertaining exaggeration on excessive collaboration.

This post goes way over the top, but I’ve felt this author’s pain. There’s not an easy solution.

I don’t think ou ever really know until well after the fact whether or not the collaboration was productive or excessive. I’ve been humbled by helpful feedback or critique coming from unexpected places in the past.

I think I’ve found “decision making” to be more of the root of the issue than “collaboration.” There tends to be:

1. No agreement on who make the final decision.
2. Requiring too many people to agree on a final decision.

I remember reading Rework (book notes) and listening to their podcast with a bit of envy. IIRC, they entrust a single “final” decision maker to try to avoid those sorts of issues.