Making Space for Discovery
As children, we built forts out of pillows and cardboard boxes … no approvals, no fear of failure, just imagination and play. Now, as adults, we optimize for uptime and reliability. Production must be stable. The challenge isn’t choosing between creativity and stability. It’s building the structures that support both. Safe Spaces for Experimentation You can carve out space away from production: sandbox environments, hack days, prototypes. Or you can enable safe experiments within production: pilot rollouts, feature flags, A/B testing. Ideally, you’re doing both. ...