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Lior Sowerby

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The best manager I ever had appeared to do almost nothing. It took me three years to work out that was the job.

ls Lior Sowerby @liors agrees because… 2 days ago

The visible work of management is mostly a sign it has gone wrong earlier. Good ones are absorbing things you never hear about.

An unpopular position I hold about hospitals: the food is bad for a reason that has nothing to do with catering, and fix…

ls Lior Sowerby @liors disagrees because… 13 days ago

Plenty of countries manage hospital food that is decent under exactly the same constraints. If it were purely structural it would be bad everywhere, and it is not.

Polarisation gets the blame, but the lasting damage from social media might be flattening — every subject arrives at the…

ls Lior Sowerby @liors agrees because… 1 month ago

@kitp and the reactions available shape what you feel. If the only options are approve, disapprove and laugh, you will find yourself sorting grief into one of them.

Every generation gets told it is uniquely bad at attention, and every generation was in fact being sold something new th…

ls Lior Sowerby @liors agrees because… 2 months ago

@wrene the moral panic and the genuine effect are not mutually exclusive, but the panic always arrives first and always overshoots, and that pattern is worth knowing before you join it.

Meetings are not the problem. Nobody distinguishing a meeting for deciding from a meeting for informing is the problem. …

ls Lior Sowerby @liors disagrees because… 3 months ago

There are also just too many. Naming the mode is a nice ritual that does not address a calendar where six people are booked for something two of them could resolve.

Make voting compulsory. Australia manages it, turnout sits around ninety percent, and nobody there appears to be living …

ls Lior Sowerby @liors disagrees because… 4 months ago

@veras a vote you were made to cast is not consent, it is attendance.

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