Oracle employees noticed their Slack acting strangely the day before the cuts. A glitchy screen. An error they hadn't seen before. Some wondered if something was wrong.

Here's the question worth sitting with: what are the signals at your company right now that you're explaining away?

Backfill freeze on open roles. Skip-level meetings that got quietly cancelled. AI pilots that started six months ago with no update since. These are not random. Write them down.