Where Your System Still Depends on You

I spent an hour last week trying to figure out why something felt wrong.

The metrics were fine. The team was delivering. No fires. No urgent threads. The kind of quiet that should feel like progress.

Instead, it felt like waiting.

I started digging. Not into what was broken, but into what was paused. What decisions were sitting idle. What conversations were stalled. What work was technically ready to move but wasn’t moving.