Systems Tai Chi

Turning constraint into momentum

Survival isn't mandatory

You don't have to change anything

The Unemployables

At a certain point in your career, you stop being a candidate and start being a threat.

Revenge of the admin

Who's serving who?

Dead Money

Or the spectral payroll

Why your dentist still doesn’t know your name

We're going spelunking in the Filing Cabinet of Doom

The secret life of small systems

Or how to outsmart the software cartel

Same ingredients, different kitchen

Choose a seasoned cook

Enough

Or how to spot a Porg

My current systems (Q3 2025)

What runs the Volcano Base?

Curiosity Patch Notes

Where enthusiasm and experience play musical chairs

Voicing the dog

Anthropomorphism as interface

When the cloud sneezes

No cloud tool is entirely storm-proof

Drawing lines in the digital sand

Computers are indifferent sand

Do you love your systems?

Would you make them a cup of tea?

Exit not found (please consult the minotaur)

Familiarity is not mastery. It’s just a longer leash.

The Core #10: Best practice is a myth

The proposal that wasn’t

How do you write a brief if you don't know what's possible?

The Core #9: Meetings are for decisions

The Core #8: People first, technology last

An Ideal Customer Profile walks into a bar...

Searching for patterns over profiles

The Core #7: Admin isn't for humans

The Core #6: Surveillance capitalism is unethical

The Core #5: What stands in the way becomes the way

The Core #4: Don't automate the good stuff