24
Jun
Locked Perception
Once you choose a story about why something happened, you stop looking for other explanations.
...and miss the real problems
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23
Jun
Frozen Lightning
Once you document a process, it's outdated—like trying to photograph lightning.
Documentation creates a false sense of
20
Jun
Judgment Bottleneck
AI writes code.
No-code builds apps.
Templates solve design.
The creative spark, that "what if" moment, has never
19
Jun
Small Teams Ship, Big Teams Sync
Team of 4: six communication paths. Team of 8: twenty-eight.
Adding people makes things exponentially harder. Not linearly. Exponentially.
We
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18
Jun
Why Nothing Ever Gets Simpler
Add complexity. Never subtract. Every process layers on top. Every "improvement" becomes permanent baggage.
Organizations are one-way complexity
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17
Jun
You Can't Control Emergence
There's a marketing campaign running right now that's about to backfire spectacularly.
And the team who
16
Jun
The Automation of Honesty
Machines don’t have egos to protect. They just report what they see.
No spin.
No excuses.
This scares us.
13
Jun
Catching Intelligence [Part 5 of 5]
How do we build systems that reward truth over comfort?
Most teams say they want the truth... (they really don&
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12
Jun
Catching Intelligence [Part 4 of 5]
The Difference Between Being Right and Being Useful
Being right feels good.
Being useful changes everything.
Socrates was considered the
1 min read
11
Jun
Catching Intelligence [Part 3 of 5]
I used to think the loudest voice was the most confident. (Turns out I had it backwards.)
The person talking
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