Why external elicitation reveals what self-review cannot Trying something new (let me know if it works for you). Moving forward, field notes on this site follow a three-part structure: Scene (the experience), Break (the friction or realization), Schema (the extracted pattern and application). Most of our attention stays fixed on the surface of an event….
Governance, hype cycles, and the vocabulary that quietly runs the world The short version We usually experience technology waves from the surface. But as practitioners, we have to see the layer underneath: the rules and incentives that determine where the wave actually lands. This is the “Magic Eye” moment of governance (when the random noise…
In parochial school, we were supposed to carry a notepad and record our assignments. If you were inspected without it, you received a demerit. I never kept the notepad. I forgot one assignment in seven years. I remember it because it was so rare. Seventh grade science fair. We drew numbers 1-30 for presentation order….
Or: What Rock Climbing Taught Me About How All My Work Actually Functions The Realization I was writing about bouldering recently. How practicing hard moves close to the ground lets you build muscle memory and recognition so that when you encounter similar patterns 40 feet up, your body knows what to do without conscious analysis….
Or: Why Tacit Knowledge Fails When You Need It Most I can execute complex work. I’ve been doing it for 20 years across disaster response, federal systems architecture, and forward-deployed operations. The capability is real. The track record is documented in systems that still run, after-action reports, and infrastructure that absorbed actual pressure. But recently,…
Stewardship of Operational Knowledge – On Finally Documenting What I Know A personal reflection on the transition from hiding to documenting. The Silence For 20 years, I kept quiet about what I knew. I had the knowledge. I saw the patterns. I understood things that only emerge from sustained operational exposure in federal disaster response,…
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Anthony Veltri · Enterprise Architect (Interoperability + Governance) · Designing decision infrastructure for cross-boundary ecosystems. · Introductions