Field notes
Short pieces from markup sessions: how executive KPI dashboards fail in mixed sittings, and what we write in the margin instead.
Name the owner before you draw the sparkline
A line that moves is not a KPI until someone in the room will defend the definition when finance and operations disagree.
What a Thursday pre-read actually has to carry
If the pack cannot be read on a train without a side call, it is a slide deck, not an executive view.
Corridor edits and the freeze you can actually keep
A number that changes between lock and sitting trains the room to wait for the corridor version.
Vanity counts that look like health
Page views, badge counts, and unowned totals photograph well and explain nothing in a mixed sitting.