Essays
Selected essays are published at lucidnonsense.net.
The essays function as the working layer of the framework — closer to the operational evidence, more granular in their focus, and published at a cadence that the books cannot match.
The Anatomy of Coherence The flagship essay establishing the three-layer diagnostic framework. The organizational argument in full, before the book.
Band Runway: The Physics of Compensation Nobody Talks About First public documentation of the Band Compression model — the mechanism by which compensation frameworks systematically disadvantage tenure while rewarding lateral entry, and what organizations should do about it.
Designing Engineering Culture @ Shutterstock The operational record behind the structural coherence argument: what was broken in a 350-person organization operating at 40% annual attrition, what was built to fix it, and what the results looked like two years later.