Tag: life

• Aligned to the Quarter

  

  Photo by Anne Nygård on Unsplash I build the instruments organizations use to watch themselves. Dashboards, databases, pipelines, semantic models, reports, and the row-level security rules that quietly decide who sees which version of the truth. The first thing that work teaches you is how easily a number stays green while the thing beneath it…

  Dom

  June 21, 2026

  Artificial Intelligence, organizational design

  AI governance, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Business, Business Ethics, business leadership, dashboard design, data strategy, Enterprise Architecture, extraction, Goodhart’s Law, life, measurement, metrics, operational resilience, organizational incentives, quarterly metrics, Responsible AI, shareholder value, stewardship, systems thinking, technology, value creation

• Trading Applause for Alignment

  

  Photo by Headway on Unsplash Author’s Note This piece explores a subtle but important distinction: the difference between applause and alignment. It’s not written as a critique of any one leader or culture, but as a reflection on a pattern many of us have observed and, at times, participated in—the slow drift from substance to…

  Dom

  August 23, 2025

  Leadership & Teamwork, Philosophy

  alignment, clarity, corporate-theater, culture-design, employee-engagement, Leadership, life, Mindfulness, organizational-culture, performance-vs-substance, Personal Development, quiet-leadership, systems-thinking, Trust, values-in-action