How to Manage Progress Without Managing Presence
Leaders reach for presence management when they lack a system that can see progress. The fix is operating design — not trust, ideology, or more meetings.
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Microsoft, Claude Code, and Strategic Distillation
A short read on why Microsoft's Claude Code rollout may have been less of a failed experiment and more of an R&D shortcut for improving Copilot.
Enforcing Guardrails in Claude Code
Practical Claude Code guardrails for blocking dangerous shell commands, protecting secrets, requiring Terraform plan review, and enforcing test checks.