Context Hoarding
A note on how context gets stripped away inside organizations, and why teams need better information flow.
One of the things I keep returning to is how context gets stripped away gradually inside organizations.
Decisions move faster when the people closest to the work understand the why, the constraints, and the tradeoffs. When that context is hoarded, teams still move, but they move with more guesswork than judgment.
This essay started as a Medium note. I am keeping the canonical link here while the older writing gets moved into this site properly.