Tag: Power and Institutions
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XI : The Deutschian Mindset for Life and Systems
Pixar’s Braintrust In the early days of Pixar, every film draft, no matter how rough, was put in front of a group of directors, writers, and animators known as the Braintrust. The rule was simple:…
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Mastering the Craft: Reclaiming the Soul of Software Development
A Call to Action Programming is no casual pursuit. It is a craft, a profound discipline that demands humility, relentless effort, and lifelong dedication. It is the backbone of the digital world we live in,…
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Our Core Values (Now with 500% More Truth)
Integrity™We boldly do the right thing, if legal says it’s fine and no one important gets mad. Honesty (When Convenient)Our transparency ends exactly one second before you ask about raises, performance reviews, or what “restructuring”…
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Death of the Humanities
For centuries, the humanities sat at the center of human self-understanding.They asked the big questions:What is truth? What is beauty? What does it mean to live a good life? But today, those questions are no…
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Tech Doesn’t Fail Because of Culture. It Fails Because of Us
t We love to blame culture, politics, or people when technology fails. But more often than not, those aren’t the real culprits. The real failure happens much earlier— At the whiteboard. In the strategy deck.…
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Executive Nonsense 101: A Masterclass in Modern Leadership
This is a satirical take on modern leadership, where buzzwords outshine outcomes, diversity becomes theater, and AI solves everything except actual problems. If it feels uncomfortably accurate, that’s kind of the point. From the Desk…
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From Surveillance to Sensemaking
Why Time-In, Time-Out Thinking Is Industrial Age Management Tracking time in/time out. Counting office days. Measuring presence. This is factory-era logic in a post-industrial world. It assumes: Productivity is time spent Value is visibility Control…
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The Leadership Gap: Where Ethics Fail
Every company has them on paper—ethics, values, guiding principles. You’ll find them etched on lobby walls, printed in glossy annual reports, and declared proudly on websites. But how often do these words translate into real…
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Embracing Freelancing, Freedom and Dodging Corporate Traps
fork in the road I have been thinking about this for sometime and I have come to conclusion that employment is for suckers and not for doers. If you are independent thinker, corporate is not…
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A Map is Not a Territory
Note – updated the broken link Continuing from my last post on Mental model, in this post, I explore Generative AI as a Classic Example of the A Map is Not a Territory Mental Model…