What should healthcare remember?
A systems architect asks what care must carry forward: decisions, uncertainty, sources, and follow-up. A working hypothesis about memory, AI, and human judgment.
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A quiet, chronological way to read across the Almanac. Each work keeps its permanent address and its place in Canon or Journal.
The work may be necessary. Do I need to do it?
I used to look at a task and think I could do it better than the other leaders around me. Sometimes I may have been right.
What scary questions reveal
Scary questions create fear. The useful part is what that fear reveals. A good scary question makes you feel a gap in your gut.
The Value Co-Creation Protocol
The Value Co-Creation Protocol helps independent participants agree contributions, benefits, and commitments through five stages, from framing to closure.
The loop you are standing inside
A loop you have not named is a loop you are standing inside.
Path-Goal Theory in AI-Native World
Path-goal theory for AI-native teams: when agents can build, human leadership shifts from tasking work to clearing the path.
When building becomes cheap
AI is lowering the cost of execution. It is not lowering the cost of choosing well. That changes what founders must become good at.
Action Without Captivity
I have spent much of my life interested in action. How do people build capability?
How #SCRUM tweet began
Historical anchor: April 2012. Written as a present-day reconstruction on August 29, 2026. SCRUM tweet began years before it became a published book.
The form changes. The expression remains.
I was writing long before I had a website. As a teenager, I wrote poetry in Gujarati, Hindi, and English.
The Luxury of Needing Less
By many worldly measures, I have done reasonably well. I can afford a more luxurious life than the one I live. Yet I choose to remain relatively frugal.
Freedom Is Not Finding the Right Meaning
What is the most intelligent meaning to give to a life? Perhaps the question contains its own trap. “Intelligent” is already a meaning we have assigned.
The board you cannot see
Imagine this. At 11:47 p.m., the office was dark except for one meeting room.
The Space Between Meanings
Late last night, someone close to me said he felt completely lost. Not lost as in being unable to find the way back.
A multiplier does not repair a broken loop
Speed is attractive because it is easy to see. A task takes 2 hours instead of 2 days. A report appears in seconds.