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engineering-leadership

16
Oct
Knowing Is Not Growing

Knowing Is Not Growing

We live in an era of instant knowledge and shallow change. Alessandro Baricco warned us: depth is being replaced by surface. Jordan Peterson reminds us: responsibility, not intellect, drives transformation.
5 min read
15
Oct
Good Systems Do Not Need Explanations

Good Systems Do Not Need Explanations

We inhabit a world increasingly obsessed with explanation. Business decks, onboarding tutorials, enablement sessions, storytelling workshops. All crafted to "make things clear".
5 min read
13
Oct
System Thinking Starts at Home: How Real-Life Engineering Builds Better Engineers

System Thinking Starts at Home: How Real-Life Engineering Builds Better Engineers

System thinking is often misunderstood as a high-level discipline reserved for enterprise architects, strategists, or researchers. But in reality, it is woven into the fabric of daily life.
5 min read
09
Oct
When Engineering Axioms Collapse

When Engineering Axioms Collapse

Every once in a while, a post-incident review reveals something deeper than a technical fault. At that moment, you know the investigation has reached the bedrock. The organisation has not drifted from its principles. It has collapsed into forgetting them.
6 min read
08
Oct
The Map and the Territory

The Map and the Territory

Every business builds a map. It is a model of how the company believes the world works, how customers behave, how markets move, how value is created. But while the map defines what we think we know, the territory keeps changing.
5 min read
07
Oct
The Empire of Fragility

The Empire of Fragility

Every civilisation that loses the ability, or the will, to maintain its own foundations begins to rot from within. Knowledge becomes doctrine. Craft becomes compliance. The capacity to build fades first in the hands, then in the mind.
5 min read
06
Oct
The Ruthless Landscape: Antifragility Beyond Empathy

The Ruthless Landscape: Antifragility Beyond Empathy

In business, we love the vocabulary of strength. We talk about resilience, toughness, grit, and, thanks to Nassim Nicholas Taleb, antifragility.
6 min read
02
Oct
Civic Virtue in Tech Culture: Why Responsibility Is More Revolutionary Than Disruption

Civic Virtue in Tech Culture: Why Responsibility Is More Revolutionary Than Disruption

In the modern tech world, disruption is the idol. But as we glorify speed and chaos, we rarely pause to ask what we have lost in the process. A world of fragility, marked by rushed decisions, shallow fixes, and performative output, has drifted us into lowering the bar to an unacceptable level.
6 min read
01
Oct
The Electric Board and the Cost of Cutting Corners: A Story of Engineering, Responsibility, and Recovery

The Electric Board and the Cost of Cutting Corners: A Story of Engineering, Responsibility, and Recovery

What a failing electric board revealed about technical debt, leadership, and the peril of tolerating fragility.
6 min read
30
Sep
How to Waste Millions and Look Good Doing It

How to Waste Millions and Look Good Doing It

In the land of quarterly OKRs and endless alignment meetings, a new kind of leadership has risen. Not the visionary kind. Not even the competent kind. These are the high priests of organisational performance theatre.
5 min read