I had a mate who's still finding their feet with English ask me last week what I meant by something I'd said. Can't even remember the sentence now. Something throwaway. But watching them try to parse it, then watching myself try to explain it, was the thing that stuck with me. Because the words...

I wrote this while working in Australia's fastest growing startup, and I shared it to the product and engineering teams. We had been adding more and more defined roles and many of them wanted to implement processes to our workflow, and I was starting to feel like every time someone was trying to...