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A fully meta-rational workplace | Meta-rationality

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A meta-rational organization may appear chaotic (although productive and innovative), until you notice how smoothly routine rational work gets done.

(What would that be like?) Utopia Here’s a description of a utopian workplace: There is no overall plan for anything. No one even knows what the organization is supposed to be trying to do. It’s completely unclear who is responsible for what. People frequently take on tasks they have no qualifications for, just because they feel like it. No one understands the work they are doing, and no one thinks that’s a problem. There are frequent arguments about what to do, with no procedure for coming to a decision, and no one has the authority to conclude one. To you , that sounds like a nightmare, beca

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