Start Here: Why InContextable Exists (and How It Helps You Today)
It’s not about productivity. It’s about fixing the part of work that software can’t.
For years, we’ve been told the path to better work is better technology:
smoother workflows
cleaner dashboards
automated processes
shared inboxes
unified data
AI-powered everything
And yet — somehow — the work itself hasn’t gotten clearer.
We still ask:
“What are we trying to do here?”
“What does this mean?”
“Did we all hear that the same way?”
“Who actually owns this?”
“Wait… why did we make that decision again?”
The uncomfortable realization is that more information systems haven’t given us more understanding.
Because software treats information as if it were data — static, explicit, nicely typed, consistent across interpreters.
But humans work with information as meaning — context-dependent, tacit, interpretive, fluid, and shaped by experience.
The moment those two realities meet, something cracks.
That crack shows up on Monday mornings as:
rework
drift
endless back-and-forth in Slack
meetings that exist only to recreate meaning
debates over what was “actually decided”
teams solving different versions of the same problem
And the instinct is always:
“We need a better tool.”
It never works.
Because the problem isn’t the tool. The problem is that our tools are built on a model of information that doesn’t match how information works in human brains.
My dad unintentionally summarized the entire problem years ago when he said:
“The job of management is to decide what’s true in their organization.”
But our tools don’t store “what’s true.”
They store pieces.
Snapshots.
Data.
Artifacts without the narrative that makes them meaningful.
Which means people spend enormous emotional and cognitive energy reconstructing context that the systems stripped away.
InContextable is the antidote.
It’s a collection of small, practical tools for restoring meaning where digital systems lose it.
Tiny interpretive moves that:
reduce ambiguity
transfer context faster
keep teams from drifting apart
make asynchronous work more tolerable
preserve the rationale behind decisions
help people ask the right question before solving the wrong problem beautifully
If you want the deeper background — the thinkers and experiences that shaped this perspective — start here:
👉 The Philosophical Roots of InContextable
https://www.incontextable.com/p/the-philosophical-roots-of-incontextable
If you want something you can use today, go here:
👉 Tools & Tips
https://www.incontextable.com/p/in-context-able-tools-and-tips
What I’m building here isn’t a productivity system.
It’s a way of understanding work that makes work make sense again.
Welcome to InContextable.
Let’s restore the missing meaning.