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Jul
Monday Myth: Success Creates Scalability

Monday Myth: Success Creates Scalability

What appears inefficient to someone measuring today's utilisation often represents resilience, flexibility and optionality for tomorrow. Spare capacity is not evidence of waste. It is evidence that the system was designed to survive its own success.
6 min read
26
Jun
Friday Fun: The Order of the Sacred Meeting

Friday Fun: The Order of the Sacred Meeting

A curious account of an order whose discipline became legendary, though few could remember what it had once been founded to accomplish.
4 min read
03
Jun
Wednesday Reality: Nobody Knows What They Are Doing

Wednesday Reality: Nobody Knows What They Are Doing

The knowledge required for success frequently did not exist at the beginning of the journey. It emerged through the journey itself.
4 min read
28
May
In Technology, Ideas Rarely Die. They Wait for Better Constraints.

In Technology, Ideas Rarely Die. They Wait for Better Constraints.

Late at night, long before cloud dashboards and AI copilots, engineers sat in front of green phosphor terminals listening to the mechanical rhythm of VT100 keyboards. Machines had little memory, networks moved slowly, storage remained expensive, and every abstraction carried a visible cost.
5 min read
25
May
Monday Myth: If Every Team Wins, the Company Wins

Monday Myth: If Every Team Wins, the Company Wins

Resilient environments absorb variability without major consequences. Fragile ones behave asymmetrically instead. Pressure accumulates silently until a threshold suddenly triggers disproportionate reactions.
6 min read
24
May
Friday Fun — The Company of Theseus

Friday Fun — The Company of Theseus

The Ship of Theseus is an old philosophical paradox. If one replaces every plank of a ship, every sail, every rope and every beam over time, does it remain the same ship?
4 min read
21
May
Law 7: Unused Work Is Structural Waste

Law 7: Unused Work Is Structural Waste

Law 7: Unused Work Is Structural Waste. Effort that does not create measurable customer value consumes resources, increases complexity, and reduces the system's ability to deliver what matters.
10 min read
25
Apr
Friday Fun: How to Break Hiring Without Noticing

Friday Fun: How to Break Hiring Without Noticing

Nobody sets out to build a broken hiring system. If you recognise what follows, you are not observing the system from the outside. You are part of it.
5 min read
01
Apr
The Death of Expertise in the Age of Inflated Seniority

The Death of Expertise in the Age of Inflated Seniority

Depth feels thinner. Decisions feel softer. Systems drift more easily. The language of leadership is everywhere, but the substance of expertise becomes harder to find. Titles have scaled. Expertise has not.
5 min read
28
Jan
Good Intent Is Not a Delivery Mechanism

Good Intent Is Not a Delivery Mechanism

All organisations are full of good intent. Most failures do not start with negligence or apathy. They start with people trying to do the right thing. Leaders care. Teams want to deliver. Strategies are crafted with conviction. Language is precise. Purpose sounds clear.
4 min read