The Castle

I haven’t written any weeknotes in yonks. Mainly because there hasn’t been anything interesting to say or much progress to report. But it’s starting to feel like there is a way through, and we’re gathering support from partner teams, leadership and colleagues in assurance. Over much of the last few weeks, I’ve been navigating the governance and assurance processes as we try to get permission to test a hypothesis. A lot of the time I’ve been frustrated with the slow speed, and the conversations can feel circular at times. I’ve been reading Franz Kafka’s The Castle, leaning on the role of irony and metaphor in working through paradox. But when you piece it all together, we’re trying to do something relatively new and the processes weren’t really designed for this kind of work which spans multiple portfolios. So I get it. It’s still frustrating, but I can understand why we are where we are. We’re a dot-joining team, so I’ve written about why the problem with test results exists, and some…