13
Oct
Loop, Not Line
Trust leads to speed. Speed leads to trust. Both are true.
Which means you can enter the loop from either
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MOMEMTUM ENGINEERING
01
Jul
The Momentum Engine
Why organizations slow down, and the physics of building faster systems
The Company That Hired 14,000 People and Fired
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26
Jun
System Resistant
Chaos persists. Not because people are incompetent.
Because heroism feels good. The system rewards firefighters, not fire prevention.
It feels
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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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28
May
The Delegation Death Spiral
"Delegation." That's what managers call it.
War. That's what it becomes. Without clear ownership,
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08
May
Performing Agency
Reward initiative. Measure it. Kill it.
Measurement changes what it touches. The act of observing destroys the thing observed.
A
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21
Apr
The Speed of Being Wrong
The fastest decision makers expect to be wrong. They build systems to detect and correct.
Speed doesn't come
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10
Apr
The Base Case Mindset
Big problems. Big solutions. The instinct is wrong.
Complexity is a drug. We reach for it because simple feels too
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02
Apr
Planned Empty
Antifragility: systems that gain from disorder. Taleb taught us this.
But empty space feels wasteful. It isn't. It&
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