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Coordination
Where work actually breaks: the handoffs, the seams between teams, the status that means different things to different people. Most delivery problems start here.
Notes on Coordination
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25 Sep 2026 Systems The Archaeology of Someone Else’s Decisions A legacy product isn’t a mess waiting for good taste. It’s a record of decisions that are mostly still correct, made by people who are gone, for reasons nobody wrote down. -
07 Sep 2026 Leadership The First Month Isn’t for Being Right A new leader is expected to show impact fast. The actual work in the first month is listening and mapping, not shipping — and the discipline is aiming that patience at yourself, for once, instead of a team you already knew. -
18 Aug 2026 Leadership Nobody Sent Out the New Rulebook AI let candidates apply at volume and let recruiters screen at volume, and the arms race between the two is making hiring faster and less honest at the same time. Nobody actually agreed to this. -
13 Jun 2026 Leadership Confidence Is Not Competence AI gives a functional expert the power to ship and the confidence to do it. It can’t give them the years that teach you what code does when no one is watching. -
07 May 2026 Systems The Cost of a Clean Abstraction Every model hides the thing it was built to hide — and that’s exactly where the outage lives.
From the desk
Keep the argument going?
This desk is where the engineering and the fiction argue it out. If a line here stuck with you — or you’d take the other side — I’d genuinely like to hear it.