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Rumination on why dissent dies (A case study in very expensive hydrogen)

Aweh Ruminants and Groupies Disclaimer: The following account is entirely fictional and bears absolutely no resemblance to any real projects, organisations, industries, investment committees, strategy decks, hydrogen ambitions, or deeply optimistic spreadsheets, past or present. Any similarity to actual events is purely coincidental, unfortunate, and almost certainly the reader’s imagination doing far more work thanContinue reading “Rumination on why dissent dies (A case study in very expensive hydrogen)”

Ruminations on dissent

Aweh, fellow ruminants and groupies The Nature of Dissent Dissent is what happens when someone in the meeting clears their throat and says the thing everyone else is carefully pretending not to think. It’s the awkward moment when the tidy PowerPoint narrative meets reality, and someone politely points out that the emperor’s strategic roadmap may,Continue reading “Ruminations on dissent”