Collections

Collections

Curated routes through the archive for specific reader situations.

Best for New Managers

Patterns about incentives, meetings, trust, decision ownership, and the hidden structure of organizational work.

  1. The Meeting That Should Have Been a Decision Organizations · History · Leadership
  2. The Meeting Invitation Nobody Refused Organizations · Psychology · Systems
  3. The Incentive That Ate the Work Organizations · Psychology · Systems
  4. The Infrastructure of Trust History · Technology · Organizations
  5. The Disagreement That Saved the Work Organizations · Psychology · Leadership

AI Judgment Essentials

Essays about calibration, context, scope, adoption, and the ways AI systems can be useful without being trusted blindly.

  1. What Calibrated AI Looks Like AI · Psychology · Systems
  2. Teaching AI to Say No AI · Technology · History
  3. The Context Problem Nobody Talks About AI · Technology · History
  4. The AI That Learned from the Wrong Examples AI · Technology · History
  5. The AI Adoption Problem AI · Technology · History

Measurement Failure

A route through dashboards, metrics, statistics, and the moment a representation starts replacing reality.

  1. The Dashboard That Lied Technology · History · Systems
  2. Goodhart's Trap Systems · History · Organizations
  3. The Statistic That Changed Shape Technology · Design · History
  4. What Calibrated AI Looks Like AI · Psychology · Systems
  5. Second-Order Questions Philosophy · AI · History

Systems That Stop Hearing

Patterns about warning systems, silence, incident learning, and ignored anomalies.

  1. How Systems Learn to Ignore Their Alarms Systems · History · Organizations
  2. What Silence Means in a System Systems · History · Psychology
  3. What Production Incidents Actually Teach Technology · Psychology · Organizations
  4. How Anomalies Get Dismissed History · Psychology · AI & Intelligence
  5. Why Warning Systems Train Us to Ignore Them Systems · Psychology · History