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Exploring the invisible forces that slow engineering organizations—Innovation Tax, Context Collapse, Linguistic Debt, and the semantic layer that connects them.

The Unreliable Narrator Series

Your Dashboard Is an Unreliable Narrator

Every metric is green. Every SLA is met. Sprint velocity is up 23%. And yet nothing meaningful ships. When your dashboards become unreliable narrators, the most dangerous lies are the ones that are technically true.

4 min read · Innovation Tax

The Unreliable Narrator Series

When “Ready” Means Three Different Things

Backend says the API schema is frozen. Frontend says mock components are built. QA hasn't been told either of those things. Everyone used the word “ready.” Nobody meant the same thing. This is Linguistic Debt—and it's costing you more than technical debt ever did.

4 min read · Linguistic Debt

The Unreliable Narrator Series

The “Later” Column Is Deferred Accountability

Your roadmap's “Later” column isn't a plan. It's where accountability goes to die. Like a character in Memento, your organization is making decisions without memory—and the backlog is the tattoo that nobody reads anymore.

4 min read · Context Collapse

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