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When to stop automating and invest in culture?

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Audience asks where on the threshold graph one should stop investing in automation and switch to investing in cultural work. Schirp: culture doesn't scale either — it's just an encoding of discipline. Companies obsess about culture and are misinformed about it. Culture is a second-order effect; celebrate it when it's good, but when it's bad, fixing the deterministic automation threshold is almost always higher-leverage. Postmortem action items that nobody executes look great on culture slide decks but don't move the needle.

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Don't — culture is encoded discipline and also doesn't scale; fix automation first, treat culture as second-order.
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