Professional

The final dispatch in the series, laying out the documentation that turns a small experiment into a repeatable ritual.

Challenges to expect when introducing a culture of small experiments, from learned helplessness to the weight of leadership's words.

Five steps to set up a recurring cycle of small experiments that keep an organization from calcifying.

The first of four dispatches on fighting corporate rigor mortis through small, deliberate experiments instead of sweeping change.

An exploration of how fear — ancient, creeping, inherited from the top — calcifies organizations and strangles the will to change.

An honest accounting of Seth Godin's intense AltMBA program — the toll it takes, who it suits, and why it isn't for everyone.

A candid retrospective on two weeks of daily writing, cataloguing what fed the habit and what threatened to consume it.

Why continuous improvement isn't just about efficiency, but a way to release built-up pressure between departments before it erupts.

On resisting the urge to build sprawling, over-engineered processes from the start, and why small rituals that grow over time survive longer.

On why hindsight's perfect clarity is a false judge of past decisions, and two questions to escape its cruel verdict.

Applying Nassim Taleb's antifragility to corporate inflexibility, with a confession of one process that needed to grow stronger from its own failures.

A practical guide to standing up a recurring continuous improvement cycle, and the conditions that keep it safe to speak honestly within.

A parable about inherited habits and unquestioned tradition, and a call to trace your own rituals back to their forgotten origins.

A case for developers to sharpen their writing as much as their code, and why the written word carries the furthest.

An introduction to Rigor Corpus — the slow, creeping inflexibility that sets into growing companies — and a vow to document its spread.