continuous improvement

13
Nov
Truth Fatigue: When Smart People Stop Caring

Truth Fatigue: When Smart People Stop Caring

There comes a point where clarity ceases to feel like a strength and begins to feel like exhaustion. One no longer needs another meeting to confirm what is already known. One no longer seeks alignment, having witnessed how alignment decays into a theatre of puppets.
5 min read
12
Nov
Platform 3.0: Building Leverage Networks, Not Just Factories

Platform 3.0: Building Leverage Networks, Not Just Factories

Platform 3.0 does not replace Platform 2.0. It builds upon it. The machinery of predictability, the safety of programmable delivery systems, and the clarity of metrics such as PI, TQS, and IMS remain essential. What changes is the scale and interaction
3 min read
10
Nov
The Cost of Clarity

The Cost of Clarity

Clarity sounds virtuous. Every company claims to value it, every leader invokes it. Yet few survive its consequences. Because real clarity is not a tool. It is a weapon. And weapons always wound, especially those who wield them.
6 min read
07
Nov
Optionality and the Myth of Strategic Customers

Optionality and the Myth of Strategic Customers

Every scaleup eventually reaches the same crossroad: double down on a few massive accounts, or cultivate the quiet loyalty of many. The first path feels strategic. The second, humble. Yet history and statistics show that only the humble one endures.
5 min read
05
Nov
The Cost of Distance: Why Reality Still Matters in IT

The Cost of Distance: Why Reality Still Matters in IT

How losing contact with reality breeds false confidence, and how trust without verification turns into risk.
4 min read
04
Nov
Tractor Pulling Hell or When Zero Leverage Becomes Fate

Tractor Pulling Hell or When Zero Leverage Becomes Fate

In healthy companies, traction comes from momentum. The term "critical mass" gained popularity during the wave of digital transformation in the early 2010s, especially as organisations began to recognise that adoption curves and internal advocacy play a disproportionate role in change success.
4 min read
03
Nov
Excellence as a Threat : Why Strong Engineers Get Pushed Out

Excellence as a Threat : Why Strong Engineers Get Pushed Out

The romanticised idea of the lone rebel fighting for truth has lost its meaning. In today’s corporate theatre, those who voice dissent loudly often benefit from the very system they claim to criticise. They are rewarded for drama, not depth. But this piece is not about them.
5 min read
31
Oct
The Leader as the First Fractal – How Culture Replicates Through You

The Leader as the First Fractal – How Culture Replicates Through You

In every organisation, the shape of behaviour begins at the top. Leadership is not merely a matter of direction or vision. It is replication. A leader's attitude, ethics, courage, and rigour do not stay confined to the top floor. They echo. Reproduce. Multiply.
4 min read
30
Oct
Code Without Concept or How the Absence of Thought Erodes Engineering

Code Without Concept or How the Absence of Thought Erodes Engineering

What happens when code is written without a concept? When frameworks replace thought? When architecture becomes nothing more than a deployment target? It means the decay of engineering practices, and the assembling of syntax on life support.
3 min read
29
Oct
How Systems Reward the Wrong People And Why Unfixing This Is Harder Than You Think

How Systems Reward the Wrong People And Why Unfixing This Is Harder Than You Think

For decades, many organisations have promoted individuals not for their competence, but for their proximity to power.
4 min read