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Anti-patternv1AP-023

Perfectionism-blocks-delegation anti-pattern

believing that delegation means lowering standards, which prevents offloading any work because no delegate can match the delegator's exact approach, trapping all cognitive load in a single bottleneck

Why This Is an Anti-Pattern

Inverts delegation-frees-attention (Delegation-frees-attention pattern). Violates Directed Attention as Depletable Resource (attention finite). Recurs in micromanagement, founder syndrome, inability to scale.