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18
Feb
When Growth Becomes Drag: Why Scaling Technology Organisations Lose Leverage

When Growth Becomes Drag: Why Scaling Technology Organisations Lose Leverage

Most technology organisations do not collapse because of incompetence. They lose leverage. Headcount grows. Budgets increase. Tools multiply. Activity accelerates. Yet delivery slows, costs rise, and strategic progress blurs. Growth becomes drag.
4 min read
17
Feb
Culture Is an Outcome, Not a Tool

Culture Is an Outcome, Not a Tool

Culture now occupies a convenient place inside many organisations. When performance weakens or alignment fractures, the diagnosis lands on culture. Yet output rarely improves.
3 min read
16
Feb
Monday Myth: The Distortion of “Organic Growth”

Monday Myth: The Distortion of “Organic Growth”

The expression “organic growth” carries an aura of virtue within the technology sector. It sounds healthy, natural, responsible. The term no longer reflects its original meaning. It has drifted. Like many post-modern distortions, it preserves a positive tone while losing structural precision.
4 min read
15
Feb
The IT Industry’s Favourite Hobby: Forgetting 🎈

The IT Industry’s Favourite Hobby: Forgetting 🎈

Every few years the technology industry discovers something “unprecedented”. And every few years we behave as if history started on Tuesday.
4 min read
12
Feb
Apprenticeship, Mastership, and the Discipline IT Still Avoids

Apprenticeship, Mastership, and the Discipline IT Still Avoids

Modern IT celebrates disruption. New frameworks every year. New titles every quarter. New promises every conference season. Serious disciplines, however, do not mature through disruption alone. They mature through apprenticeship.
3 min read
11
Feb
An Ode to Problem Solvers

An Ode to Problem Solvers

Recruiting has become strangely disconnected from reality. We interview for stacks, frameworks, certificates, buzzwords. We screen for pattern matching rather than thinking. We optimise for people who fit neatly into today’s org chart, not for those who can reshape tomorrow’s system.
6 min read
10
Feb
Resonance, Flow, and the Architecture of Learning

Resonance, Flow, and the Architecture of Learning

What high‑performing organisations build is not control, nor speed, nor alignment by decree. They build resonant networks: structures that progressively remove friction so information can circulate, correct decisions, and amplify learning at the system’s natural capacity.
3 min read
09
Feb
Monday Myth: Faster Delivery Means Quick-and-Dirty (or Expensive)

Monday Myth: Faster Delivery Means Quick-and-Dirty (or Expensive)

There is a persistent myth in IT, particularly in startups and scaleups: If you want to deliver faster, you must either cut corners or accept exploding costs. It usually hides behind the famous triangle: Fast – Cheap – Good. Pick two.
4 min read
06
Feb
When Everything Is Urgent, Nothing Is Important

When Everything Is Urgent, Nothing Is Important

Most IT organisations do not collapse under pressure. They collapse under invented urgency, among many other, more familiar causes.
3 min read
05
Feb
Psychological Safety Without Accountability Is Just Comfort

Psychological Safety Without Accountability Is Just Comfort

Its original purpose was simple and sound: allow people to speak, surface problems early, and reduce fear-driven silence. Not to protect feelings, not to arbitrate impact, but to expose reality.
4 min read