19 May Episode 022 – Someone’s Running a Model of You
SummaryEngineers think they have a communication problem. They have a system problem. Every individual communication failure compounds into a predictive model that other people run...
12 May Episode 021 – The Room Changed. Did You?
SummaryEngineers don’t fail in high-stakes rooms because their analysis is wrong. They fail because they’re answering in the wrong unit. A project manager walks a...
05 May Episode 020 – You Went Quiet. They Filled in the Gap.
SummaryEngineers don't lie about what they don't know. They go quiet. That instinct is correct in technical work, where you don't sign off on a...
28 Apr Episode 019 – Information Isn’t Communication Until Someone Can Use It
SummaryEngineers operate on a transmission model. You send, therefore you’ve communicated. But communication with people who have to act on the information isn’t a transmission....
21 Apr Episode 018 – You Answered a Question Nobody Asked
SummaryEngineers default to comprehensiveness because leaving something out feels wrong. In a design review or on a set of drawings, that instinct is correct. In...
14 Apr Episode 017 – The Visibility Problem
SummaryEngineers can have every leadership mechanic in place and still be invisible to the people who matter. The problem isn’t the quality of work. It’s...
07 Apr Episode 016 – Conflict Is a Signal, Not a Failure
SummaryEngineers treat conflict like a system fault — find the root cause, fix it, restore steady state. In human systems, that instinct doesn’t resolve conflict....
31 Mar Episode 015 – Nobody Reports to You
SummaryEngineers trying to influence peers, contractors, and cross-functional teams face a total authority gap — and they handle it badly. The default moves are logic...
24 Mar Episode 014 – Your Boss Is a Stakeholder Too
SummaryMost engineers are deliberate about the signal they send downward and sideways. The upward signal gets left to chance — not because it seems unimportant,...
17 Mar Episode 013 – When Precision Is the Wrong Tool
SummaryMost engineers apply the same level of analytical rigor to every decision regardless of what it actually requires. That’s not thoroughness — it’s a mismatch,...