Feedback Loops The Map & the Territory
A team lead delegates to people who are themselves accountable: every link is someone who can be held to it, who'll be embarrassed, who carries it into next time. Delegate to an agent and there is nothing accountable underneath, and the chain loses its middle.
A wordless coda to Dead Reckoning: an image and a piece of music, generated from the blog and every essay so far.
When you can't see where you're going, the choice to keep going or stop isn't decided by which is right — it's decided by which failure you could forgive yourself for.
The four-wheeled spinner won the luggage market by winning the showroom — but the trip still belongs to two wheels.
Everyone's writing obituaries for SaaS and for open source. They're the same obituary — and software isn't the body.
Two years of head-down execution ended in a moment of looking up — and a slow recognition of what curiosity actually is once the good outcomes have stopped being available.