systems
Observations from operating in organizations of various shapes and sizes.
essays
How do organizations actually move fast?
And can AI really solve the fundamental constraints of coordination?
Bad Potatoes
Erosion of insight and the problem of objective specification
Thinking unevenly well
Why is it hard to transpose good thinking across domains and scales?
The Bullwhip Effect in knowledge work
Scale and the loss of shared reality
Assumption Provenance in the age of AI
If you're just entering the workforce, you need to learn to question everything
The "10,000 Steps" Problem: Ironic KPIs
Strict measurement is relevant mostly when you're trying to go from "pretty good" to "excellent"