Arguments
Organisations substitute legible proxies for the unglamorous work of judgement. That single swap produces both the saviour they should not have hired and the wasted talent they did. Topics tell you what a piece is about; arguments tell you what it claims.
The Saviour and the Hammer
3 essaysOne pathology, two symptoms: the manufactured saviour and the wasted artisan.
The Aperture
Not yet indexedOrganisations do not assess the person in front of them; they assess the proxy, and the proxy is always cheaper, safer, and often as not—wrong.
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The Guardians
Not yet indexedThe people positioned to say the unwelcome thing are systematically disciplined out of saying it—and the disciplining never appears in any minute.
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The Theatre
Not yet indexedWhen words stop carrying consequences, executives stop being accountable for what they say, and then for what they do.
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The Permanent Pilot
5 essaysAI is not a new failure; it is the old failure—signalling over substance, acquisition over capacity—conducted at unprecedented expense.
The Artisan
Not yet indexedThe artisan, not the instrument, builds the house—and artisanship is a profession, not a side hustle for the technically gifted.
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The Proxy Mind
Not yet indexedSelection precedes analysis; the scarce executive skill in an era of cheap generation is deciding what does not deserve to shape judgement.
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Building the House
Not yet indexedThe slow, unglamorous, compounding work that the saviour was hired to spare everyone—and the only thing that was ever going to work.
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