The engineering calendar
How a twelve-person studio protects deep work without pretending nobody has a pager.
A twelve-person studio cannot pretend it has a research division and a delivery division. The same people write the insight and the pull request. The calendar has to protect both.
We keep two no-meeting mornings. On-call is a named person, not a channel. Hiring is paused if the current squad cannot take a holiday.
Culture pages in a company CMS should read like this: specific, dated, and slightly inconvenient. If it sounds like a values poster, we delete it.