Let’s Make It Easy
summary
Argues that persistent workplace pain points are symptoms not root problems, backed by a quick exercise that finds ~50 issues in minutes and a personal list of ~200 recurring problems. Shows the math: a 1% daily improvement compounds to ~37.78× in a year, and warns management that making things easy to manage often makes work harder. Recommends concrete tools — retrospectives, Cynefin-style domain thinking, and isolating a team in a culture bubble to experiment (the bubble produced mob programming at Hunter and proved effective). Emphasizes a tiny improvements habit.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:06My first job
- 4:14Tiny improvements habit
- 6:40Exercise: What makes things difficult?
- 13:20Problems vs symptoms
- 14:30The misplaced focus of management
- 15:58Beliefs and biases
- 20:07Thinking fast and slow - Daniel Kahneman
- 21:56Systems and domains
- 25:17The systems bible - John Gall
- 27:14Domains
- 29:39Summary - practical stuff
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