Chanel makes newly hired senior leaders sit silent for 90 days. No decisions. No fixes. No "here's how we did it at my last company." Just listening. The most rational onboarding policy in luxury, and almost nobody copies it.
The instinct that got someone promoted is the same instinct that breaks them as a leader. They were the best at the job. They saw problems fast. They fixed them faster. That pattern recognition is what got noticed.
Then they get the title. And every problem that crosses their desk now triggers the same instinct: I see it, I know the answer, I can solve this in an hour.
So they do.
And the people who report to them learn three things in the first month. Don't bring problems, bring solved problems. Don't think out loud, you'll get overruled. Don't develop judgment, the boss already has it.
You've trained your team to be your hands. Six months later you wonder why nobody on the team has an original idea, why every decision still routes through you, why you're working 70-hour weeks doing the same job you had before plus a calendar full of 1:1s.
The 90 days of silence at Chanel is a forcing function. You can't fix what you don't yet understand, and the act of waiting until you understand is the actual work. Most companies skip this step because the new hire's salary creates pressure to "show value" immediately. Chanel absorbs 90 days of zero output in exchange for a leader who actually leads instead of one who out-executes their team.
The trade most managers refuse to make: short-term throughput for long-term capacity. Watching someone struggle toward an answer you already have, and choosing to let them find it themselves, is the entire job. Everything else is just being a senior IC with a bigger inbox.
@steipete@fxnction not gonna work. the real problem is LLM API cost just needs to come down across the board since oauth consumers are getting subsidized by api users and really still by VC (venture capitalist).
@alexocheema@Jason@openclaw what happens if one of the Macs hardware dies (bad disk, etc)? does this gracefully recover or will the exocortex have a stroke?
@buzsokk this is a rackpull not a deadlift since he is starting much higher with the elevated blocks. You can do much more with rackpulls. Shohei is still strong though