This week, the boss promises unlimited accessibility while maintaining a strict policy of selective deafness, and Dawg Raymond is logging every unanswered one-on-one.

This week, our cube-cows run a 15-minute standup for 45 minutes straight: yesterday was meetings, today is meetings, and the only blocker on the board is the meeting itself.

This week, the boss insists collaboration requires physical proximity, so Dawg Raymond is currently holding a high-stakes meeting with the empty chair across from him.

This week, one cow prepares the talk. The manager cow just can’t let the opportunity of a spotlight go: ‘As you can see from my work…’

This week, the bull’s entire leadership philosophy fits inside a matryoshka doll: ‘be exactly like me,’ he tells the dog, ‘just smaller.’

Private doubt rarely starts punishment. Groups punish a cheat only when the cheat becomes common knowledge: everyone knows, and everyone knows that everyone knows. Pyramids and thin sideways talk keep that from forming: each person can see the cheat and still stay quiet, because nobody has heard the others say it out loud.

This week, our cube-cows discover the hyena has already rewritten yesterday’s meeting minutes: turns out the hyena’s Copilot archived objections as “constructive buy-in.”

Dream big, commute bigger.

People sometimes react with unusual intensity to traits in others that they find difficult to acknowledge in themselves. That heat can feel like moral clarity, and it can also keep a feared trait from feeling like their own.

People give the acceptable reason outward; that story is a deniability hood: a clean cover that keeps the public account clean. The real reason can sit in the dark, sometimes outside the person’s own awareness, sometimes as a way to avoid their own “self”.