tech leadership | The Broomstick Brief

A door hinge rendered as a technical illustration, but the central pin of the hinge is a human silhouette, standing upright, holding the two leaves together. The left leaf is dense and disordered: overlapping raw material, weather, cables, half-legible signals, textures that do not resolve. The right leaf is clean and ruled: a severity matrix grid, policy clauses, an architecture diagram with tidy boxes and arrows.

The hinge in the attention argument

Cassie Kozyrkov’s question is a good one: if machines now do the doing, what is left for leadership? Her answer is attention. Leadership becomes the design of what machines notice, optimise and repeat. That is a useful shift, but the argument becomes more interesting if Ashby’s law and Lewin’s field theory are read a l…

Architecture reviews that approve instead of challenge

Architecture reviews exist to catch problems before they become expensive. In practice, most reviews catch a different set of problems from the ones they were designed to find, and miss a different set from the ones that will eventually cause trouble. This is not because the reviewers lack competence. It is because mos…