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Essays on why performance tools fail and what it takes to fix a blocker yourself — restrained, evidence-first.
2026-09-08 · 5 min read · performance-culture · product
How to give your team autonomy without losing sight of alignment
The quiet fear behind delegation is finding out too late that people drifted. The usual answer, more visibility, eats the thing you were trying to protect.
2026-09-04 · 5 min read · performance-culture
You rolled out AI. Can you tell if performance actually improved?
Usage is up and to the right. That number cannot answer the question you actually have, and the research says the feeling of speed points the wrong way.
2026-09-01 · 5 min read · performance-culture
Why every tool to improve how your team works dies at adoption
Everyone agrees the tool is good. Nobody uses it. The bottleneck is not belief and it is not laziness, and knowing which one it is changes what you build.
2026-08-28 · 5 min read · performance-culture
Why reviews and surveys miss what's actually blocking your team
The person who is stuck usually cannot name what is stopping them. That is a structural problem, and asking a better question does not fix it.
2026-08-20 · 5 min read · build-log · agent-readiness
How this site serves Markdown to agents
When a client asks for text/markdown, this site hands over the source instead of the page chrome. Here is the whole mechanism, including where it degrades.