Blind Spots · calibration exercise
This is a calibration exercise. You'll read short workplace moments and say, for each one, whether you think something is going wrong.
About half of them have nothing going on. That is deliberate and it is the whole design: without moments where nothing is happening, there is no way to tell someone who notices things from someone who says "yes" to everything.
It reports two things — how sharply you told the real ones from the ordinary ones, and how readily you call something a problem. Neither end of that second one is the good end. It is not a measure of your bias and there is no score you pass or fail.
Settings you'll read
- Team meetings
- Appraisals
- Close-out reports
- Message threads
- Promotion panels
- Standing agendas
What it looks for
- Credit drift — an idea enters the record from one person and leaves it attached to another.
- Ambiguity tax — joint work with unclear individual contribution, where credit defaults along the lines of expectation.
- Pattern escalation — a second incident read as a pattern rather than as a second incident.
- Vague praise — feedback that is warm but carries no instance, so it cannot be acted on or cited.
- Airtime asymmetry — turns, interruptions or standing agenda time distributed unevenly between people at the same level.
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