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direwolf20 • yesterday at 7:31 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

If the work could be accelerated it would not be bureaucratic work. Bureaucratic work is work that is placed in a process to deliberately slow it down.


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1123581321 • yesterday at 8:28 PM

We can conceive the bureaucratic work that introduces a deliberate slowness to a system being replaced by a more overt waiting or human-making-sure step after automated work. (Understanding why we were waiting won’t come equally easily to every organization.)

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brokensegue • yesterday at 7:38 PM

That's not the typical definition.

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