Incomplete ideas. Hypotheses in progress. Intellectual honesty mandatory.
These are notes from the field. Raw, unpolished, and possibly wrong. We publish them to think in public.
We suspect title inflation is masking a skills crisis. Collecting data on expected capabilities vs. actual capabilities in post-2020 hires.
We are running a simulation on the cost of synchronization. What happens if all communication switches to async-only for 5 days?
With AI scraping everything, the incentive to publish public code is inverting. Will we see a return to proprietary guilds?