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by wood_spirit 21 hours ago
Middle managers were about making work legible https://www.seangoedecke.com/seeing-like-a-software-company/

Now that wasn’t the most efficient and it has a whole bunch of perverse incentives too, but it’s what happened as companies got big enough to hire people to do the work that could be delegated because those delegatees got status from having people to themselves delegate to.