The real cost of a broken handoff — and why it never shows up in your retrospective

The real cost of a broken handoff — and why it never shows up in your retrospective

The retrospective says: miscommunication. Misaligned expectations. Unclear requirements. It never says: we spent 40 hours building the wrong version of a feature because the person who wrote the spec...

Gestalt is live. What building it revealed about the problem it solves

Gestalt is live. What building it revealed about the problem it solves

I built Gestalt because I kept running into the same wall. I was building multiple products simulta...

What SR-SI actually is - and why I stopped explaining it as an AI trick

What SR-SI actually is - and why I stopped explaining it as an AI trick

For the past year, whenever I described SR-SI to someone, I'd watch their eyes settle on the wrong t...

You can't install psychological safety with a form

You can't install psychological safety with a form

You can't just yell "360!" and expect honesty to appear like magic. Most companies roll out 360 fee...

Architect mode is a superpower, and it's exhausting

Architect mode is a superpower, and it's exhausting

You can't just be a participant. If you're in the room, you'll end up building the structure, carryi...