Corporate absurdity dissected through parables, dark comedy, and fifteen years of scar tissue from the tech trenches.
A learning comedy — the clinical case of a company whose immune system attacks its own cure: it advertises for a superhero, then rejects the one who shows up as “overqualified.” Why hiring gets sick, and how to read a rejection letter that contradicts its own evidence.
The Human Code finale. Six awards travel to six species at the Engineering Excellence Awards, and the camera finally pulls back: the predators were never the organism under study. The habitat is. Which species does your building select for — and which are you becoming?
Episode 6 of Human Code. Praesentia vacua attends every meeting, nods at every update, and decides nothing. You can't observe this species directly — only the hole it leaves: the drift, the six-week-old access request, and Sync #7. The empty chair would cost less.
Episode 5 of Human Code — the one with teeth. Fiducia disponibilis acquires your trust faster than anyone you've ever met, keeps it in RAM, and never writes it to disk. One ordinary Tuesday, the migration begins. The host wasn't ended. The host was deprecated.
Episode 4 of Human Code. Pica creditrix absorbs your ideas in private and presents them in public, 48 hours later, on slide seven, under the pronoun 'we'. The damage isn't the stolen thought — it's the silence that follows. Welcome to the food chain.
Episode 3 of Human Code. Draco runbookensis answers your Slack question in four minutes at midnight and has never finished a runbook in its life. The most valuable animal in the building — and the most dangerous Confluence page. Bus factor: one.
Episode 2 of Human Code. Architectus theatralis builds monuments nobody asked for — four services, two queues, a standing ovation — then migrates before the maintenance bill arrives. The team inherits the peacock. The stairs stay with you.
Episode 1 of Human Code, a field guide to the corporate predator. Meet Ignis salvator: the engineer who is always first on the scene of every incident — for reasons the post-mortem never asks about. Hero syndrome, observed in its natural habitat.
