These two posts are the same:

https://backofmind.substack.com/p/how-the-wrong-side-won-at-boeing

https://blog.ronbronson.com/dark-patterns-won

Even if one is talking about how Boeing's management interfaces with the Boeing organization, and the other is talking about how all of us interact with our own societies. I was just thinking about this, in light of @anildash 's We Are Going To Kill Unalive post: https://www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/kill-unalive/

The common thread underneath all of these is the same phenomenon: that the regression-to-the-mean of leadership is metrics.