Refuse the cynic and the naïf. Build the working model of the operator who is power-literate without being power-worshipping, ethical without being naive about how organizations actually work. Write the operator credo you'd be willing to be measured against in ten years. This is the module where the engineering lens partly fails, and the curriculum says so rather than pretending. You cannot reason your way to good character; you choose it, repeatedly, in conditions that make the wrong choice attractive. "What kind of operator am I becoming?" is not a question Pfeffer or Grant can answer for you; it's an answer you give over time through small choices made under pressure. The nearest engineering analogue is honest: architectural integrity isn't a property you prove once, it's a property you defend at every code review, especially the ones where cutting the corner would ship faster. The credo is your ADR for your own conduct — written in calm conditions, consulted under load.
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This is the soul module of the curriculum and I want to start with what I cannot do, because the rest of this file fails if we both pretend otherwise. I am a language model produc…
This is the soul of the curriculum. Without M2, the curriculum becomes a tactics manual — and a tactics manual deployed by an engineer with no ethical anchor metastasizes into exa…
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1. Operator Self-Assessment. Using Grant's framework, classify your default reciprocity style (giver / matcher / taker) and identify, specifically, the situations where you drift …
10 lessons. Read in order; spiral back when you need to. By the end you'll have used the core ideas twice — once on the abstract, once on something you'll meet at work next week.