Papers

Three short papers. One gap.

Employers have stopped trusting that a degree comes with judgment. Students find out on their first day. Organisations already own the lessons, filed as postmortems. We wrote one paper for each side of that gap, and all three end at the same place: a simulator where the judgment can be practised before it costs anything.

For students & recent graduates

The Gap Between Passing and Shipping

Seven things graduates get wrong in their first engineering job — and how to practise them before day one.

  • Why "make the tests pass" is the wrong instinct when a real system is misbehaving
  • The habit of acting before you know who else reads the thing you are changing
  • What to do when the AI agent is confidently wrong — and how to notice
  • A twenty-minute exercise for each habit, inside a simulated engineering team

~12 pages · 25 minutes · PDF

For universities & educators

Why Employers Stopped Trusting the Degree

The judgment gap in new-graduate hiring, and a simulator-based way to close it.

  • What the payroll and hiring data actually show about 22–25-year-olds — and what they do not
  • What hiring managers now mean by "judgment", and why a lecture cannot teach it
  • The flight simulator and the case method, and what a browser can do that neither could
  • How a pilot cohort runs: invite links, transcripts, your reviewers, our worlds

~14 pages · 30 minutes · PDF

For engineering organisations

The Simulator Your Postmortems Wanted

Custom engineering-judgment simulators built from your domain, your stack and your incident history — for the graduates you hire and the engineers you already have.

  • Why your incident history is the best judgment curriculum you own, and how a postmortem becomes a playable world
  • Two uses of one world: hire from transcripts at the universities you recruit from; give new hires their first incident before their first incident
  • The talent pool: candidates who opt in, found by hours in the simulator, worlds completed and competencies evidenced — priced per profile
  • How a five-week engagement runs, and what we will and will not claim

~12 pages · 25 minutes · PDF · the organisations front →

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