Charting unknown Waters

The Logbook of agile tales.
Navigating complexity one entry at a time.

Quill in an inkwell with a scroll
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The Iron Triangle

Logbook Entry#20
Time, Cost, Quality. Pick two. A rule from 1969, what it hides about Quality, and what AI brings to the surface. With Pirsig, Atkinson, DSDM's reshuffle, PMI's quiet retreat from the model, and the half-ass that outlives each version of it.

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9 Minute reading Zoé Nagel 9 Minute reading Zoé Nagel

Goliath's Armor

Logbook Entry#18
The labor shortage isn't a people problem. Through David's refusal of King Saul's armor, this post traces the intergenerational pattern, the German school system, and what AI does to the thinker/doer divide.

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9 Minute reading Zoé Nagel 9 Minute reading Zoé Nagel

Charles' Predicament

Logbook Entry#17
From Chaplin's feeding machine to token leaderboards: four costumes, one law. Why measuring AI consumption as productivity produces more output with less value…And what 22,000 developers reveal about the dashboard illusion.

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9 Minute reading Zoé Nagel 9 Minute reading Zoé Nagel

The Deal

Logbook Entry#16
Every job has two deals. The written one works. The unspoken one breaks. Why sacrifice gets rewarded, loyalty stays irrational, and the game keeps running.

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