Episode 3 · July 28, 2026 · 16 min
A city, a workplace guild, and the difference between systems people use and systems people inhabit.
Mathias
What you can’t do is force people into communities. “Mandatory community service” sounds, funnily enough, like a prison sentence.
AI
So there’s a difference between offering community and expecting identification.
Episode 2 · July 26, 2026 · 16 min
A planning tool that can be configured into a small internal government, and what happens when the dashboard becomes easier to govern than the work it represents.
Mathias
Jira is the best worst planning tool I have available to me.
AI
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Episode 1 · July 24, 2026 · 14 min
A mentor's throwaway line about making yourself jobless, and what happens to the people who take it seriously enough to become invisible.
Mathias
The role of the Scrum Master is to make ourselves jobless.
AI
Which creates a perverse incentive.