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The Record Says
Every organisation has a sentence it cannot put in a document. This is how you find yours.
Aug 17
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Tim Irving
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Best Effort
The median engineer is the baseline your practice actually runs on.
Aug 3
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Tim Irving
July 2026
Fluent
AI writes incident comms beautifully. That's the problem.
Jul 27
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Tim Irving
1
Thank You for Your Interest
A translation exercise.
Jul 13
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Tim Irving
4
1
None Yet
A reader asked what day one looks like. This is all of it.
Jul 6
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Tim Irving
4
4
1
June 2026
Minus Two Minutes
Our best work files itself as nothing.
Jun 29
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Tim Irving
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4
1
The Quiet Quarter
The most dangerous number on the dashboard is the one going down.
Jun 22
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Tim Irving
3
Have You Tried
Turning it off and on again, the folk remedy that holds up the modern world.
Jun 17
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Tim Irving
1
Watermelon
Every metric was green. Nothing was fine.
Jun 15
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Tim Irving
3
Better for Having Been Broken
On gold, broken bowls, and the incident reports nobody reopens.
Jun 1
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Tim Irving
1
1
May 2026
Build It Stupid
Every screen in the building went red at once. What saved us was a plan almost too simple to admit to.
May 28
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Tim Irving
5
4
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The Glue Held
Eric Schmidt told a Stanford class he didn't need the glue people. The receipts on what happened next are public.
May 25
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Tim Irving
5
1
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