Ideas
Ideas I'm working through about leadership, organizations, judgment, and the places where the apparent problem isn't always the actual one.
Expertise as a Blind Spot
Expertise gives us speed, pattern recognition, shorthand, and judgment. It can also make us so fluent in a frame that we stop noticing it is a frame.
How to Find the Hidden Obstacle That Is Actually Preventing Progress
A project that looked like a construction-cost problem turned out to be a parking assumption nobody had thought to revisit. Sometimes the fastest way forward is to treat the given as a variable.
What Is the Near Enemies Framework?
Near Enemies is a framework for understanding how real strengths can distort, overreach, or take on jobs they were never meant to do, and why those patterns are so hard to see from the inside.