Tag: progress vs readiness

• The Fractal Delusion: Why Motion Isn’t Proof

  

  From the road, it looks like progress. A project site at full stride has a particular kind of confidence to it. Steel ribs climb into the sky. Concrete trucks arrive on schedule. Cranes swing slow, deliberate arcs, placing beams where they belong as if the building is assembling itself. You can stand at the fence…

  Dom

  February 1, 2026

  Management, Philosophy, Sharing Thoughts

  abstraction layers, architecture, burnout, decision making, engineering culture, foundations, fractal complexity, information compression, invariants, Leadership, load testing, manual controls, operational risk, organizational design, progress vs readiness, Project Management, risk management, status reporting, systems thinking, technical debt, tripwires