Quick Start

Welcome to BakeIT Guildelines 💜
An introduction to the root concepts U would use on a daily basis will be given to U 👽

“The hottest new programming language is English” – Andrej Karpathy

• Writing a good product requires thinking about what Ur users are trying to do 💡
• Baking a delicious cake requires time, patience, the right ingredients and the right steps 🥮
• Quality of Ur input dictates Ur output and eventually outcome 🎩
• U are the partner of the company, not slave 🤝
• The more choices the longer it takes to decide which one is the best 🤔

“It’s not the hours you put in your work that counts, it’s the work you put in the hours” – Sam Ewing

Hick’s Law

The fewer the easier to pick

“The more options available to a person, the longer it will take to decide which option is best”

RT = a + b log2 (n)
// RT - response time
// a - time not involved with decision making
// b - time of cognitive processing
// n - number of alternatives

• Start simple add complexity later
• Break down complex processes into more simple steps
• Reduce the options for time-critical tasks
• Highlight recommended options

Pareto Principle

80/20 rule - focus on “vital few”

“Roughly 80% of consequences come out from 20% of causes (vital few)”

• 20% of Ur actions will likely drive 80% of Ur results
• 20% of Ur tasks will likely produce 80% of value
• 20% of Ur customers will likely lead to 80% of Ur sales
• 20% of Ur products will likely make 80% of Ur profits

Miller’s Law

~7 items in working memory

“The average person can only keep 7 (plus or minus 2) items in their working memory”

• Chunking – brake down information into smaller, more manageable parts
• Batching – group similar tasks together
• Prioritizing – focus on the most important tasks first

Any element or action that isn’t helping users achieve their goal is working against them 🎯

Eating The Frog

“If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first” – Mark Twain

• Identify the most impactful and challenging task 🐸
• Do it first before other todos 👽
• Sense of accomplishment will give U the energy to tackle the rest of the day ☀️

Completing your most difficult task early boosts productivity and motivation

Cross-Pollination of Knowledge

The metaphor of cross-pollination

Sharing and interchanging of ideas, thoughts, information, and knowledge for the enrichment of team & individual capabilities 🌻

In Nature, cross-pollination is when one plant pollinates a plant of another variety. The genetic material of both plants merge and the seeds that are produced include characteristics from both flowers 🐝

The Mountain Peak

“We hire smart people, so they can tell us what to do” – Steve Jobs

• Share the vision, “Do you see that Mountain Peak? Now, go climb it…” 🏔️
• Delegate desirable outcome rather than task directive
• Empower and trust rather than control with incompetent limitations

The Root Cause

Don’t optimize something that should not exist

“Well, I do think there’s a good framework for thinking. It is physics. You know, the sort of first principles reasoning. Generally I think there are — what I mean by that is, boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there, as opposed to reasoning by analogy”
– Elon Musk

The Peter Principle

“In organisation, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence”
– Lourence J. Peter

This leads to Peter’s corollary: “In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties”

So, now you know, therefore will not be so frustrated anymore 🤪

The Ladder of Replacement

Changes go from the bottom Up

Why do U want to hire new CEO if U even do not have Executive admin? 🤔

So, if U want to grow (and stuck on the lvl of ur incompetence. LOL) – U have to coach Ur replacement 🪜

• Grow from bottom Up otherwise the Upper lvl would not have input and become Lazily inefficient 🌿
• Infrastructure first if U want to develop agriculture U need to build farms 🧑‍🌾

Theory of Constraints

“An hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour lost for the entire system. An hour saved at a non-bottleneck is a mirage” – Eliyahu Goldratt

• Identify the constraint – the one step the whole flow waits on 🚧
• Exploit it – squeeze max output out of it, never let it idle 🍋
• Subordinate the rest – speeding up a non-constraint buys nothing 🐢
• Elevate it – break the limit: invest, automate, add capacity, redesign 🏗️
• Then repeat – the constraint moves; don’t let Ur old rules become the new constraint 🔁

Ur system is exactly as fast as its slowest step – improve anything else and nothing changes ⏳

Dunbar’s Number

Robin Dunbar concluded that the size, relative to the body, of the neocortex – the part of the brain associated with cognition and language – is linked to the size of a cohesive social group. This ratio limits how much complexity a social system can handle.

The theory of Dunbar’s number

We can only really maintain about 150 meaningful connections at once

The theory of Dunbar’s number holds that the tightest circle has just five people:

• 5 – loved ones
• 15 – good friends
• 50 – friends
• 150 – meaningful contacts
• 500 – acquaintances
• 1500 – people you can recognise

People migrate in and out of these layers, but the idea is that space has to be carved out for any new entrants 🛂

To overcome this limitation and maintain the level of effectiveness we need the common ground – the purpose of BakeIT and Am0wA Manifesto