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If this resonates with you, I highly recommend picking up a copy of Tracy Kidder's 1981 novel The Soul of a New Machine. You'll be hooked by the end of the introduction.

tclancy•5m ago

And if you like that, the good news is you will probably like most every Kidder book. Or at least House. His works tend to be inquiries into how systems work, just at different scales.

iamflimflam1•18m ago

Can definitely relate to this. But I have found that, when running a team, it can be very counter productive.

If you constantly solve all the problems that come it can be stifling for the people you manage.

poszlem•14m ago

Strongly agree with this. It may sound good in theory, but in practice, especially with real people, it can come across as overbearing, stifling, and exhausting for others. This isn’t meant as a dig at the OP. it’s just an observation based on personal experience with someone like that in my own family.

edit: I am not critiquing enthusiasm itself, but a compulsion that can be productive and unhealthy.

harryday•15m ago

Help is the sunny side of control.

tclancy•5m ago

> I don’t mind the ways in which my job is dysfunctional, because it matches the ways in which I myself am dysfunctional

As a fellow traveller, I offer one caution: learn to turn this down in personal relationships as it can be counterproductive. It took decades for my wife to finally get through and explain not every problem she voices is something that needs a solution. Some times people just want to be heard. It bugs the hell out of me because I tend to need to solve All The Problems before I can do any self-care, but rather than seem heroic, I think this attitude can seem transactional or uncaring as though everyone is just a screw that needed a bit of tightening, etc.

johnisgood•1m ago

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