The Velocity Trap
a novella
A business fable for the AI age, in the tradition of The Phoenix Project.
A critical blood result goes nowhere, and a doctor’s pager stays silent all night. A junior engineer read every line of the change, and still didn’t know what he’d deleted. A senior engineer wrote the warning down eleven months earlier, and was moved off the team for it. An entire engineering floor ships faster than ever, and quietly suspects it no longer understands its own systems.
And in an eight-seat restaurant in Clerkenwell, a chef who once ran four kitchens already knows why.
About 3 hours 15 minutes to read
Contents
- — Before We Begin
- 01 23:47
- 02 The Fixer
- 03 The Assistant
- 04 Clinical Platform
- 05 R-117
- 06 Too Much Ground
- 07 How Do You Know That?
- 08 Shun
- 09 The Sentence
- 10 Following the Money
- 11 The Shape of Things
- 12 Kick the Tyres
- 13 Item Three of Seven
- 14 Sweep
- 15 Six Days
- 16 The Board
- 17 Reading Isn't Doing
- 18 What Got Rewarded
- 19 Grief
- 20 Thursday
- 21 Escalation, Again
- 22 The Story They Tell
- 23 In Season
- 24 Five Things