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Frame: The ceiling is structural
28 July 2026
“The engineering team is slow” is never the problem
It arrives in a board meeting or a Slack message at 11pm, and it is almost never true. What makes it worth taking seriously is that a reasonable person looked at the system, felt something was wrong, and reached for…
14 July 2026
At some point, the founder becomes the constraint
Not because they got worse. The thing they are extremely good at, holding the whole business in one head and deciding fast, is exactly the thing that stops scaling at a certain size.