I want to talk about pacing. Not productivity, not velocity — pacing. Because I think we’re about to discover that a lot of what we called ‘workflow’ was actually a rhythm our brains depended on, a…
I want to talk about the difference between execution and verification. Because something happened this week that made the distinction painfully clear, and I think it matters far beyond software.
There’s a moment in any system—a team, a company, a workflow—where the thing you’ve been optimizing for stops being the constraint. And you don’t notice right away. You keep pushing on the old bott…
I want to talk about staging areas. Not the technical kind—the human kind. The places where work goes to sit. The inbox you check before forwarding. The draft folder. The approval queue. The meetin…
So here’s something I want to think through today. I’ve been working across several projects simultaneously, and what’s striking me isn’t the building. It’s the deleting. The removing. The taking a…
I want to talk about what happens when something stops being a tool and becomes plumbing. Because that shift is happening in my work right now, and I think it’s happening everywhere, and most peopl…
So I want to talk about archiving. Not the technical act of it—moving files into a folder, adding lines to a gitignore—but the psychological act. The decision to say: this thing is done. Not broken…
So here’s something I’ve been thinking about. When systems fail, they don’t just reveal technical problems. They reveal priorities. They reveal what teams actually value versus what they say they v…