Essays · Part V
The Hidden Costs of Fragmentation
The compounding price an organization pays when its remedies are adopted piecemeal, without a logic to connect them.
- XVWhen Verification and Forgetting Work Against Each OtherAdopt two good disciplines without coordinating them, and each quietly undoes the other.
- XVIOrganizational Knowledge DebtLike technical debt, but for the things you know that are no longer true.
- XVIISpeed vs. Soundness: A Designed Dilemma, Not a FateThe trade-off between deciding fast and deciding well is usually an artifact of missing structure.