The illusion of less work
AI does not remove work; it multiplies it. When output becomes cheap, volume explodes. Without leadership deciding what “enough” looks like, optimisation just accelerates …
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Why Shift-Left often just shifts the load
In practice, Shift-Left often does something else entirely: it shifts the cognitive burden onto people who are already overloaded.
The Shape of Top-down FinOps
FinOps fails when it starts at the bottom. Top-down FinOps ties every optimisation to strategy: leadership sets intent, platform allocates time, managers put work in the …
Context, scopes, maturity and pathways: how FinOps adoption really starts
FinOps adoption starts with context, moves through scopes, defines maturity and follows pathways. This layered model turns the Foundation’s framework into a practical …
How FinOps thinking is evolving: from frameworks to pathways
FinOps is evolving fast. The Foundation sets the framework; Carlo Wejszko’s pathways add the missing sequence. This new layer—Context → Scopes → Maturity → Pathways—shows …
The God of Fire: Choosing What to Watch
Even gods can’t watch every fire. In FinOps, infinite data demands deliberate focus. This essay explores how to choose the “fires” that matter—by pausing, talking to …
FinOps+ wants to eat the world (but most practitioners are still chewing cloud)
FinOps+ and Scopes promise to expand FinOps beyond cloud. It’s ambitious—but for most teams, still out of reach. Here’s why it matters, how it fits the Foundation’s …
Medical priority a technique to prioritize in 5 minutes
As an efficient person, you are always busy, and if the workload goes down, you find more things to do, and if it goes up, you manage using methods from this blog, until …