The Latency Problem

Focuses on the core misdiagnosis (values) vs. the structural reality (system speed), while making it clear this is about architecture, not attitude.

If you grew up drinking hose water, staying outside until the streetlights came on, and hearing “figure it out” as the default response to most problems, you already know what low-supervision, high-ambiguity operating environments feel like.

That was not character building. It was an adaptation to scarcity.

Most leaders who came up through that architect…