Pillar
Running a studio, managing scope, ops as a force multiplier
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A single disruption to lean, just-in-time production cost the global auto industry an estimated $210 billion in lost revenue in 2021, per consulting firm AlixPartners. An antifragile business reads a shock like that differently: not as a catastrophe to survive, but as information to...
Roughly 15,600 developers from more than 1,400 companies have built the Linux kernel, described by the Linux Foundation as the largest collaborative project in the history of computing, and no manager ever assigned most of that work (Linux Foundation, 2017). The mechanism underneath...
Every system has one bottleneck governing its output. The theory of constraints explains why improving anything else is wasted motion, and why the constraint always moves the moment you break it.
Automation is worth it for repetitive, reversible work. But the tasks you should never automate hide accountability and remove the human who catches the exception.
In 2024, 51% of all web traffic was automated, so opt-in tools are built to miss most of what reaches your site. Analytics undercounting is the norm. Server-level measurement gives you the honest number.
91% of deployed ML systems degrade over time, yet under 20% of organizations measure their automation. Automation maintenance, not the launch, is the real work. You automate to reach further, then monitor and improve.
Developers spend about 42 percent of their working week, roughly 17 hours, on maintenance and dealing with bad code rather than building new features, according to Stripe's 2018 Developer Coefficient report. That number is entropy at work. Software entropy is the tendency of any...
Most inventory variance isn't caused by lack of data — it's caused by disconnected data. Cannabis compliance is the case study. The lesson applies everywhere.
Forty percent of public company boards now prioritize data governance. Growing businesses can't keep theirs in a spreadsheet someone built three years ago.
