Performance, Promotion and Pay: There's Always a Negotiation
In a corporate a raise hangs on a spreadsheet; in an owner-run company on a memory. A system doesn't change the outcome, only the language.
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A software career: seniority, responsibility, changing jobs and the skills that last, covered in posts, notes and practical examples. (Page 2/4)
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Fast from scratch, slow in a live system: the real cost of brownfield in the age of agents
Work an agent finishes in days takes a week in a system running for years: there the cost isn't producing code, it's finding and proving the rules.
How Knowledge Flows: Hallway or Document?
Knowledge stuck in one person's head and knowledge buried in a wiki nobody reads end up the same way: the reasoning behind a decision is unreachable.
Role Boundaries: Where There's No Job Description, Everyone Does Everything
A role gap closed by individual sacrifice becomes invisible — and an invisible fault never gets fixed. Drawing a boundary, from three desks.
When Is Process Armor, and When Is It a Shackle?
Process isn't a virtue — it's a coordination tax you pay. When it should be added, why it never gets removed, and how it looks from three different desks.
How Decisions Get Made: Approval Chain or Single Signature?
Companies don't fail at going fast or going slow — they fail at matching the speed to the decision. A reversibility frame, and three desks to view it from.