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If you’ve noticed that your organization has more data than ever but has a really hard time figuring out what it all means, you aren’t imagining it.
This site documents the gap between how systems are designed on paper and how they actually function in the room. This isn’t an audit or a consulting pitch; it’s a collection of observations on why work sometimes feels like a “Hamster Wheel” and how we might find a bit more coherence.
The Core Principle: Context Prioritization
In complex environments, multiple things can be true at once. A project can be “on track” according to one metric and “in trouble” according to another. The difficulty isn’t usually finding the data; it’s deciding which truth matters most right now.
What I’m Noticing
If you are new here, start with the observations that match the specific “glitches” you are currently seeing:
Intelligence vs. Integration: Why we mistake the “pipes” (APIs and Cloud) for actual shared understanding.
The Human Middleware Tax: A look at what happens when humans have to act as the manual “glue” between tools that don’t talk to each other.
The Map and the Territory: Why we sometimes prioritize the spreadsheet even when it feels disconnected from what we’re seeing on the ground.
Read: The Big Lie of Big Data
The “Nth Power” Problem: My suspicion is that adding AI to a context-starved organization won’t fix the mess—it will just scale the confusion.
A Practical Step: Dissing the Default
The most direct way to reclaim a bit of logic is to recognize where a system—or a software vendor—is making your decisions for you. Dissing the Default is the practice of noticing pre-selected settings and deciding if they actually work for you.
I’m here to notice the glitches, not to sell a fix. My interest is in documenting the specific ways our systems stop adding up, and identifying the moments where a bit of human context makes the work feel coherent again. My hope is that by noticing these issues together, we can collectively come up with ways to address these challenges.