Your Team Is a Distributed System
Model your team as a distributed system.
Learn why culture is structure—not vibes—through message passing, locality, loss, asynchrony, and non-linearity under load.
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SRE for Human Systems Under Load
systemic.engineering: an embodied site reliability engineering discipline for human systems, focused on coherence under load, regulation, and language as infrastructure.
Fear, Language, Coherence, Mistakes, and Why You’re Still Reading This (Please Don’t]
A piece about fear, language being load-bearing, odd mistakes, coherence, and stopping before you’re ahead.
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Title-based Authority Fails Under Load
Why title-based authority fails during incidents. Learn how regulation enables psychological safety, effective escalation, and better post-mortems under load.
On Fragmentation: Tech Debt Is a Coherence Problem
Tech debt isn’t bad code — it’s fragmented reality encoded into software. Learn why coherence, not cleanliness, determines system stability under load.