Hierarchies were never the point. They were the cheapest way to move information through an organisation when moving information was expensive. That constraint is lifting, and the structures built around it are starting to look like what they always were.
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Notes & essays.
What we are thinking about, what we are reading, and the occasional longer piece. Written when there is something worth saying, not on a schedule.
28 Apr 2026Field note
What a company knows, and where it keeps forgetting it
Institutional memory does not live in the wiki. It lives in three people, two of whom are on holiday. A note on where knowledge actually sits, and why it leaks.
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09 Apr 2026Essay
Operations is the last handcrafted thing
Most of what keeps a company running is still done by hand, in the gaps between systems that were never meant to talk to each other. We think that is about to change, and what it changes.
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21 Mar 2026Note
Against the dashboard
The dashboard was supposed to reduce work. Instead it created a new job: watching the dashboard. A short argument about why looking is not the same as knowing.
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04 Mar 2026Field note
The meeting as a patch
A meeting is often a workaround for a system that cannot tell people what they need to know. Some meetings are real work. Most are repairs. Telling them apart is worth doing.
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