It's Not Remote Work. It's Online Work.

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The phrase “remote work” frames the thing wrong, and it matters.

“Remote” implies a center. There’s a place — an office, a headquarters, a room where the real work happens — and you are remote from it. You’re the outlier. The person calling in from somewhere else while everyone else is together.

This framing was accurate when the minority of people weren’t in the office. It made sense to call them remote. But it stops being accurate the moment the distributed model is the primary model. When 70% of your team is “remote,” there is no center. The office is just another node.

Why Agile Works (And It's Not What You Think)

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The standard story about why Agile works is wrong. It goes something like: Agile is better because it’s iterative, because it surfaces requirements earlier, because it gets working software in front of users faster. All true, but none of it is the reason Agile works.

The reason Agile works is Gall’s Law.

Gall’s Law, from John Gall’s 1975 book Systemantics, states: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse is equally true: a complex system designed from scratch never works, and cannot be patched into something that works. You have to start over with a working simple system.

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It's Not Remote Work. It's Online Work.

Why Agile Works (And It's Not What You Think)