INSIGHTS
On work.
Short notes on teams, focus, leadership, and how work actually moves.
- LEADERSHIP · 30 AUG 2026 · 7 MIN READSome of My Best Lessons About Management Came From a Comedy SeriesI did not expect to take management lessons from a comedy series. Then I realised Ted, Roy, Jamie, Rebecca and Nate were showing something much more interesting: management is less about managing people and more about creating an environment where they can do good work together.
- WORK CULTURE · 31 AUG 2026 · 7 MIN READThe Epic of Gilgamesh Had a Backlog TooI'm not going to claim that Gilgamesh managed a backlog. But a 4,000-year-old story contains some surprisingly familiar problems: too much depending on one person, ever-growing work, dependencies, and eventually a simple question — when all that work is done, what remains?
- 19 AUG 2026 · 2 MIN READWhat waiting work tells you about how work movesWaiting is not a messy status. It is information about how work actually moves.