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"By the time I explain how it needs to be done, I could have just done it"
Do you know how much effort it takes us to explain stuff, let alone talk to people?
And now you're the only one who can do it. Enjoy those 3am phone calls.
The odds of 3am phone calls increase explosively if I let other people touch it. And they will still not know how to do it, so after they get the call they'll call me anyway.
But well, not all "other people" are alike. That's valid only for some of them.
This is one of the hardest things to let go of when I was a people leader. It's a lesson I've had to teach myself that if I do it, I deprive other people from learning and growing, even if it takes twice as long.
I'm there to help and guide, and not do the work because I am only one person.
It's an uncomfortable position but it's something every leader needs to be okay with.
This is why I so frequently get overwhelmed at work. I would always rather do things that talk about doing things, so I just do the things, and end up owning everything
That's a big part of it for me, too. The other part is that I document things pretty thoroughly, but no one wants to read that. I'd much rather they read the docs I wrote and ask specific questions than expect me to just explain everything from scratch.
Similarly, teaching someone how to do something (that of course I taught myself, as my preferred means of knowledge attainment) is 10x more difficult that doing that something. The frequent lack of desire for people to experiment and learn anything on their own is very off-putting. Of course this makes me curmudgeon.
Any time I hear someone say "I didn't think about that" when dealing with a very simple problem, I just want to pull out "How long did you piss on the toilet seat before someone told you to lift it when you go?"
Seriously, I shouldn't have to describe how to remove the ball bearings from this part, because I explained how to do an identical one 2 minutes ago.
I love taking things apart to know what makes them work. Electronics and mechanical devices are fascinating.
And I don't understand how someone can look at things and go "yeah no need to look any deeper, I know enough already"
Train AI using the docs and redirect users to the AI first.
Get out.