The Ideas
This is the public archive of writing from Rebel 75. Many of these pieces first appear in The Frequency, our monthly newsletter exploring culture, leadership, and the systems that shape how work actually happens.
In this collection, you’ll find stories from the field, ideas that challenge the status quo, and reflections on building more human, values-led workplaces.
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The Tyranny of Efficiency, or How It Dismantled Quality, Craft, and Competence
This first essay in a fictional forensic series examines how efficiency-first operating models degraded creative capacity over time. Told from the perspective of an AI Chief Efficiency Officer conducting a systems-level failure analysis, it explains why organizations optimized for speed and scale ultimately lost their most creative contributors—not through failure, but through design.