I got recruited to run another newsletter, so expect some changes around here. Might be pivoting this publication somewhere else and/or adjusting the...

Simon and Finn.Trilemmas suckBy choosing any two points on a pick-2 triangle, you are neglecting the third. Another schoolyard example is the tradeof...

Novus ProtocolusArmy members’ faltering fitness levels spur update to training protocol.Das Protokoll, a collection of essays on protocol studies, wa...

A few years ago, we were given a sign. Traffic planners are the unsung heroes of our cities’ pedestrian herds. Recently, they changed their tune. It ...

Fresh from the dripProtocols as Weberian Bureaucracy by Gordon Brander. On the progression from “rizz” to rules.A protocol for choosing an innovation...

Roughly speaking, there are three ways to start a business. You can start with What, How, or Why. And since leading a business is basically a continu...

"The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization."~ Karl E. WeickProtocols in the Ne...

Dilbert to Level 9Most rules emerge from the bottom up. They are products of individual efforts to create order in work. By order, I mean the betterm...

On Tuesdays we talk protocol.The Tuesday edition of The Protocolist is going to be a link bag. One part protocols in the news and one part things I f...