Knowledge work becomes like gardening: create the conditions for growth to happen, don't build plants yourself

[26:10] Dan Shipper
Knowledge work—whether it was code or writing or email or whatever—was sort of similar to sculpting. When you’re sculpting, every single thing that happens on the sculpture is something that you did with your hands.
Now, knowledge work is turning into something like gardening. When you’re gardening, you’re creating the conditions for the growth to happen, but you’re not making the plant with your hands. And that’s what a loop is. Instead of doing any individual email, you’re building the system that does your emails for you, and you’re intervening at different parts of the process.
[27:33] Natalia Quintero
I think this really is just an evolution of the model manager analogy: we are going from using these systems as individual contributors (where we ask them to do a small set of things really well), to creating a system, which is something that a good manager does when they have a big team.

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[26:10] Dan Shipper
Knowledge work—whether it was code or writing or email or whatever—was sort of similar to sculpting. When you’re sculpting, every single thing that happens on the sculpture is something that you did with your hands.
Now, knowledge work is turning into something like gardening. When you’re gardening, you’re creating the conditions for the growth to happen, but you’re not making the plant with your hands. And that’s what a loop is. Instead of doing any individual email, you’re building the system that does your emails for you, and you’re intervening at different parts of the process.
[27:33] Natalia Quintero
I think this really is just an evolution of the model manager analogy: we are going from using these systems as individual contributors (where we ask them to do a small set of things really well), to creating a system, which is something that a good manager does when they have a big team.