The Fake Pyramid
Every company publishes an org chart, and almost none of them are true. The real power in a system lives with the people who can block a deploy, kill a migration, or veto a rollout — not with whoever the boxes say reports to whom. We map how decisions actually travel through modern infrastructure, and why the hidden hierarchy is the only one worth charting.
Show Notes
Org charts describe a company the way a subway map describes a city: officially, and misleadingly. In this episode we map how power actually moves through technical organizations — through review gates, deploy permissions, and the small number of hands that can stop production.
Then the harder question: once you can see the real pyramid, whose responsibility is it to redesign it?
Topics Covered
The Knowledge Tree
Seven debates, connected — each one a node in the same system.
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Hidden power structures
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Org design vs. reality
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Who can block a deploy
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