inverse specificity law
a natural law that dictates that the depth and accuracy of your task description is inversely proportional to the importance of the task. you will be given a ten-page written specification on preparing an invitation for five customers to come to morning coffee, a tax audit report will be requested in an email consisting of a single paragraph, while a request to revise the organization’s entire cost structure will be delivered verbally in a single sentence.
ceo: bernie, our database manager left and we need a report of all customers who bought semi-spleeted widgets in the northwest region since the beginning of the month. there’s a potentially fatal fault and we need to do a product recall.
bernie: sure, right away! what’s the product code for semi-spleeted widgets, and what’s the region code?
ceo: dunno. the database manager left. but it’s all in the database. just do it.
bernie: hmmm… the inverse specificity law indicates that this task must be critically important!
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