“You need to learn to delegate” … That’s not always easy due to a variety of situations out of one’s control : @hhariri on Thread Reader App
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/24
A year ago, Hadi Hariri wrote this very important Tweet which I preserved through [Wayback/Archive] Thread Reader App because the Space Karen hates the Wayback Machine so much that it still can’t archive tweets ¹:
[Wayback/Archive] Thread by @hhariri on Thread Reader App
“You need to learn to delegate”
Learning to delegate is not that hard. Delegating, and doing it successfully on the other hand, requires having the right people to delegate to.
That’s not always easy due to a variety of situations out of one’s control.
Luckily, Archive.is can still archive Tweets, so here is the original one: [WaybackSave/Archive] Hadi Hariri on X: “”You need to learn to delegate” Learning to delegate is not that hard. Delegating, and doing it successfully on the other hand, requires having the right people to delegate to. That’s not always easy due to a variety of situations out of one’s control.”
Anyway, I responded with my story, which I archived too, but this time because Twitter does not allow viewing threads as an anonymous user since 2021: [Wayback/Archive] Twitter won’t show complete threads now without an account. :( Twitter accounts … | Hacker News.
My story [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @jpluimers on Thread Reader App
@hhariri Especially when explaining what and how to a delegatee is taking more time/energy/effort than doing it yourself.
Still training the new internal care of my brother. Costs less energy than last year, but back then the old “ambulant” care took 2 hours and then “it was OK”.
@hhariri Weekly I try to figure out what happened then hours re-explaining “treat him like he is: mentally a 3 year old with autism in a full grown body that seems to speak Dutch very well, but does not really understand what he says. So what he says is different from what he wants/needs”
@hhariri And for “normal work”, the life long job is to keep explaining that doing things right the first time saves a lot of effort.
@hhariri And yes, there is hindsight when at the time you did things, you didn’t know there was or would become a better way, or that the current situation changed.
Those are valid reasons for redoing things later, but not valid reasons for not even trying to do it right the first time.
In case you have a Twitter account, you can find the thread start at [WaybackSave/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “@hhariri Especially when explaining what and how to a delegatee is taking more time/energy/effort than doing it yourself. Still training the new internal care of my brother. Costs less energy than last year, but back then the old “ambulant” care took 2 hours and then “it was OK”.”
--jeroen
¹ sometimes it archives something of the tweet, in this case the [Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON which you normally would get through the Twitter CDN like [Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON (I wrote about creating a JavaScript Bookmarklet for this method in Probably many more like these are needed to download Twitter videos: [extractor/twitter] Fix unauthenticated extraction by bashonly · Pull Request #7476 · yt-dlp/yt-dlp).
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