Ask HN: What makes delegating work hard?

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I'm the founder of a startup that helps to delegate work while helping the receiving party to deliver on the job in a pain-free and qualitative manner.

The product aims to solve a couple of core pain points I personally experienced myself in the past (on the sending and receiver side), but I'd love to validate and hear it from others:

What makes delegating work hard for you??

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Context. It's just different for the two parties. Most of the time knowlege is highly asymmetric (which makes delegating financially attractive in the first place) and establishing the context is percieved as almost as expensive as doing it for yourself.

Only for very well known tasks or well established relationships where the right pre-knowledge has already been established, delegating is instantaneously beneficial.

> In psychology, theory of mind refers to the capacity to understand other people by ascribing mental states to them. These states may be different from one's own states and include beliefs, desires, intentions and emotions.

Pretty much this. Very few can explain the what-how-why in a fool-proof way.

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