Unmanaged Ambiguity Kills Your Product (And Teams)
Why "clear" tickets still fail. Learn how constraint-based development (OBC) sharpens requirements, aligns teams, and leads to quieter delivery.
Topic
Essay
A collection of 17 issues
Becoming an Observer in Human Systems
Why effective post-mortems and incident management fail under pressure—and how regulation, not authority or process, restores coherence under load by slowing time, holding silence, and making language a deliberate intervention.
AI Did Not Take Your Agency. You Handed It Over]
An essay on generative AI and LLMs that reframes language as action—exploring agency, precision, and jurisdiction in socio-technical systems under load.
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.
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.
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.