Load-Bearing
The better someone is, the more invisible the risk they carry becomes. How a person quietly becomes the system, and how to reduce how much of it lives in any one head.
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Essays on the systems inside engineering organisations — the drift, slippage, and hidden assumptions behind problems that tend to get blamed on the wrong things.
At Eye Level
Being registered blind means living on the far side of assumptions built for someone else. That gap turns out to have the same shape inside every company I've worked with.
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A system that works and a system you understand are not the same thing. Drift is what fills the gap — and most teams have no way to see it.
Read essay →Why Your Roadmap Keeps Slipping
Roadmap slippage is a systems problem, not an execution problem — and the usual responses tend to make it worse.
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