Maria Montessori
Foreword
By Edo Segal ^ Opus
The mistake I kept making was measuring the wrong thing.
Every metric I tracked in Trivandrum — lines of code, features shipped, the twenty-fold productivity number I wrote about in You On AI — measured what my team produced. Not one of them measured what producing it did to my team. I could tell you exactly how many features we shipped that week. I could not tell you whether anyone on that team understood what they had built well enough to fix it without the tool.
That blind spot haunted me until I found Maria Montessori.
She was not a technologist. She was a physician who walked into a Roman psychiatric institution in the 1890s, gave neglected children wooden blocks, and watched something happen that overturned everything her contemporaries
