Nobody Left, and Everybody's Gone

What is a person for, once the output is free?

Planning Season is a Knife Fight

Prioritization is a power negotiation, and it stays a knife fight as long as two different questions stay knotted together — what belongs on the list, and how honestly the people in the room will decide. Pull them apart and the fight finally has a floor.

The Stack You Can't Refactor

Relationship Infrastructure in the AI Era

Before You Cut Headcount for AI

AI moves work more than it removes it — cut too early and it lands on whoever's left.

Human Tech Debt