Deborah Cowen
Foreword
By Edo Segal ^ Opus
The diagram that broke something open for me was not a chart of adoption curves or a graph of productivity multipliers. It was a simple drawing of a port.
Arrows showing the flow of cargo. Shaded zones showing where people lived. And the arrows passing straight through the shaded zones as if those people were not there. As if the communities the infrastructure ran through were transparent.
I recognized it immediately. Not the port. The pattern.
I have spent the last year celebrating throughput. Lines of code generated. Products shipped in thirty days. Twenty-fold productivity multipliers measured in a room in Trivandrum. I tracked every arrow. I could tell you the velocity, the direction, the acceleration. I built dashboards for the arrows.
I never drew the shaded zones.