Your Team Is Performing for You
You Built the Stage
March 22, 2026·8 min read
Three meetings before anyone says a real thing. That's not dysfunction. That's theater. And the leaders never see the mess. They see the performance.
Jono
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Latest Writing
I Added a Meeting to Feel Like a Leader
I Read the Logs and Actually Was One
March 21, 2026·6 min read
A release broke payments for 10 minutes. So I added a meeting. Release retrospective. Every deployment gets a review. Sounds like leadership. The fix came from reading logs. Not from a meeting.
You Stopped Growing Two Years Ago
Nobody Told You
March 21, 2026·8 min read
You've mastered the stack. You know every corner of the codebase. You could do the work in your sleep. And that's exactly the problem. The five year wall is real. It happens because growth stopped and nobody noticed. Not your manager. Not your skip level. Definitely not you. Because everything still works.