Safe-to-Fail Systems: Resilience by Design

Safe-to-fail systems embrace the inevitability of failure by designing for controlled degradation, resilience, and recovery — creating structures that adapt, learn, and protect from collapse.

My brain is not a buzzword

A female talent manager, lit by late-afternoon sunlight, stares thoughtfully at her computer screen. Her expression conveys quiet hesitation and empathy as she reviews a job application.

After years of engineering my own focus systems, I finally have an official label for the mind that built them. ADHD hasn’t changed who I am — it’s simply given my methods a name. This piece is about ownership, not confession: how to hold a label without being held by it.

When the Editor Becomes the Algorithm

A focused male political strategist works at his dimly lit workstation, illuminated by the cool glow of dual monitors and a laptop. His expression is calm yet calculating, suggesting control and moral ambiguity as he orchestrates unseen AI systems.

AI hasn’t stolen authorship — we’ve surrendered editing. In the rush to automate creativity, we risk confusing fluency with thought and speed with understanding. The future of intelligence depends not on prediction, but on stewardship.

The Measurement Cluster: weaponised metrics

A tired government press officer sits at her desk late at night, surrounded by newspapers and glowing monitors in a dimly lit office. She rests her chin on her hand, lost in thought as the weight of political performance hangs heavy around her.

When progress becomes performance theatre, productivity collapses under its own applause. This piece examines how linguistic inflation and measurement overload fracture focus — and how clarity restores traction.

Legitimacy Theatre: When Systems Perform Progress

A male editor works in a quiet newsroom surrounded by glowing screens and stacks of papers under soft morning light.

Systems that perform progress confuse complexity for competence. This article decodes how legitimacy becomes theatre — a choreography of mimicry, incentives, and selective attention that rewards motion over meaning.