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Field Note #070 | The Silence Debt
The meeting was peaceful. The execution was warfare.
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Everyone has sat in a project review where a flawed timeline went up on the screen, the room went completely quiet, and everyone nodded anyway.
Leadership leaves believing the team is aligned.
Two months later, the implementation unravelled over the exact constraint nobody wanted to mention at 4:45 PM.
In Field Note 70, we examine The Silence Debt—the mechanism by which unspoken objections accumulate interest during planning and collect payment during execution.
Rather than blaming culture or individual courage, this episode looks at the…
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