Regulation-as-a-Service: When Systems Become Extractive
Asymmetric regulation isn't a bug—it's a feature in some relationships. Extraction is when the SLA was never negotiated and shadow on-call is silently load-bearing. How to detect the pattern?
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Tech Debt Isn't Bad Code—It's Encoded Legacy Patterns
Tech debt is legacy patterns reproducing. In your code. Your process. Your team. Why code reviews keep finding the same problems—and better questions to ask.
Who invited the agent? Oh God.. (Smith will suffice.]
Agentic AI collapses ambiguity without a body. This essay cuts through AI agent hype to ask the ethical question no system scaling agents wants to answer.
How Culture-As-Vibes Prices Silence Out of Human Systems
Why culture-as-vibes optimizes for visible contribution, misreads silence, and quietly breaks engagement and feedback systems.
Unmanaged Ambiguity Kills Your Product (And Teams)
Why "clear" tickets still fail. Learn how constraint-based development (OBC) sharpens requirements, aligns teams, and leads to quieter delivery.
When Conflict Breaks Teams
Conflict isn’t a people problem. It’s a pressure signal. A systems-level look at how teams break under load—and what gets erased when it happens.
Becoming an Observer in Human Systems
Why effective post-mortems and incident management fail under pressure—and how regulation, not authority or process, restores coherence under load by slowing time, holding silence, and making language a deliberate intervention.
AI Did Not Take Your Agency. You Handed It Over]
An essay on generative AI and LLMs that reframes language as action—exploring agency, precision, and jurisdiction in socio-technical systems under load.
Your Team Is a Distributed System
Model your team as a distributed system.
Learn why culture is structure—not vibes—through message passing, locality, loss, asynchrony, and non-linearity under load.
SRE for Human Systems Under Load
systemic.engineering: an embodied site reliability engineering discipline for human systems, focused on coherence under load, regulation, and language as infrastructure.