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  1. Judgment used to live quietly inside implementation. Developers made small decisions constantly — and nobody noticed.

    As execution gets cheap, those decisions can't hide anymore. They have to be made explicitly, or they get deferred.

    And when they're deferred, progress stalls in strange ways. Meetings multiply. Alignment feels fragile. The discomfort isn't technical. It's decisional.

    open.substack.com/pub/sargentj

    #Leadership #AI #Management #SoftwareEngineering

  2. Mile 17 arrives in every hard project. The plan is gone, the team is tired, and someone's doing the math on whether this is still possible.

    Ultra athletes handle that moment differently.

    #Leadership #Endurance #UltraAthlete #MentalResilience #BuildInPublic #Founders #Ironman

    open.substack.com/pub/sargentj

  3. @sarge Also, "vintage music". This is the sound of my childhood and my teenage years. If you're calling the music vintage you're calling me vintage ...

    *looks in mirror*

    Ahh, right. As you were. Nothing to see here, please move along.

    #TOTP

  4. @sarge Also, "vintage music". This is the sound of my childhood and my teenage years. If you're calling the music vintage you're calling me vintage ...

    *looks in mirror*

    Ahh, right. As you were. Nothing to see here, please move along.

    #TOTP

  5. @sarge Also, "vintage music". This is the sound of my childhood and my teenage years. If you're calling the music vintage you're calling me vintage ...

    *looks in mirror*

    Ahh, right. As you were. Nothing to see here, please move along.

    #TOTP

  6. @sarge Also, "vintage music". This is the sound of my childhood and my teenage years. If you're calling the music vintage you're calling me vintage ...

    *looks in mirror*

    Ahh, right. As you were. Nothing to see here, please move along.

    #TOTP

  7. @sarge Also, "vintage music". This is the sound of my childhood and my teenage years. If you're calling the music vintage you're calling me vintage ...

    *looks in mirror*

    Ahh, right. As you were. Nothing to see here, please move along.

    #TOTP

  8. @sarge you weirdo’s need to change your goofy meaning to TBOTP and leave #totp to the rest of us.

  9. AI is very good at producing outputs that feel finished. No red flags. No clear failure. Just plausible results that quietly lock in assumptions nobody named.

    The system works — until the cost shows up all at once.

    open.substack.com/pub/sargentj

    #Leadership #AI #DecisionMaking #SystemsThinking

  10. What Happens When Execution Gets Cheap, and Judgment Doesn't

    Over the next few weeks, I’m sharing a short series on what’s actually changing in software, leadership, and decision-making in the age of AI.

    open.substack.com/pub/sargentj

    #Leadership #AI #SystemsThinking #DecisionMaking #TechLeadership

  11. Erbeet Azhak – Only the Vile Will Remain Review By Tyme

    I’ll take “Global Notables” for $600, please, Ken—The clue: Country famous for its waffles, chocolate, beer, and castles. The answer—What is Belgium?! Correct! Belgium is also home to some pretty decent black metal bands—Lugubrum, Enthroned, and Wiegedood, to name a few. Here to add another branch to that blackened Belgian family tree is Erbeet Azhak, the side project of one pretty busy Corvus von Burtle—C.V.B.(Cult of Erinyes, Wolvennest, LVTHN, Aerdryk). Erbeet Azhak’s debut album, Only the Vile Will Remain, helmed by his Cult of Erinyes bandmate and all-around metal maestro Déhà at Blackout Studio, promises to stand “as a manifesto in which hatred and chaos coexist under the dominion of a faceless yet resolute entity.” Let’s plant the dark seed of Erbeet Azhak’s Only the Vile Will Remain together and see what slithering roots sprout from within.

    Erbeet Azhak’s black metal is desolate and chaotic, but doesn’t stray far from trails travelled by C.V.B.’s other projects. Still, it finds him further flexing his vocal muscles, which are a mix of everyman blackened rasps alongside tonal shouts and growls that sound a lot like F.O.A.D.-era Nocturno Culto. Even as Erbeet Azhak brings C.V.B.’s own guitar and bass talents to bear, guest musicians S. Iblis’s (Possession) lead guitar, Onbra Oscoura’s (Abyssal Vacuum) bass, and Laye’s (Putrid Offal) drumming flesh out a sound palette that explores several black metal styles. Sargeist lurks in the riffs of galloping melodicism present on “The Wings of Liberation,” just as Blut Aus Nord fans can belly up to a bar stocked with blasting beats and decaying dissonance (“Lecherous Angels,” “Death to the Self”).1 Further examination finds traces of Aosoth in the near blackened war metal of “Only the Vile Will Remain,” while devotees of doomier plods ala late-era Darkthrone should find comfort in the folds of “Erbeet Azhak.” Despite what seems such a mixed bag, Only the Vile Will Remain encases its twists and turns in a production that provides sonic consistency.

    Raw but nuanced, Erbeet Azhak packs as many interesting details into Only the Vile Will Remain as Luciana Nedelea did her excellent cover art. I particularly enjoyed the engaging guitar leads that creep amongst the riffs and blast beats of “The Weakness of Our Cycle” as much as I did the intriguing riff patterns and spacy, atmospheric interlude that hijacks “The Inner Circle” around the 2:45 mark, segueing into a really nice melodic guitar solo. Iblis’s performance warrants particular note, as he peppers the whole of Only the Vile Will Remain with lots of satisfying, melodically intricate solo work not present on most black metal of this ilk (“The Wings of Liberation,” “Death to Self”). C.V.B.’s performance on the mic also deserves a nod. While he’s never contributed in this way on any of the other projects he’s involved with, save Aerdryk, his vocals fit what Erbeet Azhak does well and add a layer of gravelly, gothic tension and menace. The vocal cherry on top, however, belongs to Zd from LVTHN, whose inhuman screeches absolutely haunt the back-end passages of “Lecherous Angels.”

    While Only the Vile Will Remain isn’t a sprawling, over-bloated behemoth by any means, it could benefit from a little nip and tuck. Erbeet Azkhak traverses the many planes of its black metal existence with relative ease and is most compelling when song lengths provide enough room for all the transitions to develop. Evident even on the albums second shortest song, “The Wings of Liberation,” which transitions from a galloping mid-pace to a blast-furnace passage before moving on toward a guitar solo flowing with melodicism and then back again, all within the span of 4:06. Ironically, this leaves the 3:46’s of the title track stuck in my craw as the album’s most boring; its straight-forward, blast-beat-overloaded war-metal approach sticking out sorely amidst the much more atmospheric fare on display. Cutting this and the mostly superfluous intro would have left Only the Vile Will Remain a more lethal beast.

    Erbeet Azhak hasn’t revolutionized the landscape of black metal, neither in Belgium nor in the broader, raw-as-misanthropic scene in which Only the Vile Will Remain operates. Those intrigued by the name drops above should find something of value here. I know I got more than I was expecting. For now, I’d say there’s a fresh sprout on the Belgian black metal family tree with Erbeet Azhak’s name on it; whether that grows into a sturdy branch or not, only time will tell.

    Rating: 3.0/5.0
    DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
    Label: Amor Fati Productions
    Websites: Bandcamp
    Releases Worldwide: March 7th, 20262

    #2026 #30 #AmorFatiProductions #Aosoth #BelgianMetal #BlackMetal #BlutAusNord #Darkthrone #ErbeetAzhak #Mar26 #OnlyTheVileWillRemain #Review #Sargeist
  12. 🚨💥 Josh Sargent to Toronto - DONE DEAL ✔️

    Toronto have reached a verbal agreement with Norwich. The 26 y/o striker is flying in today for his medical.

    The transfer fee is around €20 million. #Sargent was very keen on the move to the MLS.

    @[email protected] 🇺🇸

  13. 🚨💥 Josh Sargent to Toronto - DONE DEAL ✔️

    Toronto have reached a verbal agreement with Norwich. The 26 y/o striker is flying in today for his medical.

    The transfer fee is around €20 million. #Sargent was very keen on the move to the MLS.

    @[email protected] 🇺🇸

  14. 🚨💥 Josh Sargent to Toronto - DONE DEAL ✔️

    Toronto have reached a verbal agreement with Norwich. The 26 y/o striker is flying in today for his medical.

    The transfer fee is around €20 million. #Sargent was very keen on the move to the MLS.

    @[email protected] 🇺🇸

  15. Sarge, Relentless Robot Merc

    * Concept: Militarized Mr. Handy with a penchant for movie one-liners

    * Quote: "Get moving, sweethearts. We ain't got all day."

    * Trinket: Single pre-war depleted uranium bullet, attached to a steel chain.

    #Fallout #Fallout2d20

  16. 🚨🐺 VfL Wolfsburg have reached a full verbal agreement with Josh #Sargent. 25 y/o striker from Norwich can sign a contract until 2029, with Wolfsburg pushing hard for the deal.

    Negotiations are advanced, with discussions ongoing over a fee close to €20m. Wolfsburg are trying to close the deal this weekend.

    @[email protected] 🇺🇸

  17. 🚨🐺 VfL Wolfsburg have reached a full verbal agreement with Josh #Sargent. 25 y/o striker from Norwich can sign a contract until 2029, with Wolfsburg pushing hard for the deal.

    Negotiations are advanced, with discussions ongoing over a fee close to €20m. Wolfsburg are trying to close the deal this weekend.

    @[email protected] 🇺🇸

  18. 🚨🐺 VfL Wolfsburg have reached a full verbal agreement with Josh #Sargent. 25 y/o striker from Norwich can sign a contract until 2029, with Wolfsburg pushing hard for the deal.

    Negotiations are advanced, with discussions ongoing over a fee close to €20m. Wolfsburg are trying to close the deal this weekend.

    @[email protected] 🇺🇸

  19. Ucieknij do Paryża… w Nowym Jorku! ✨ 11 lipca MET zaprasza na wyjątkowy wieczór w klimacie Sargenta i Paryża – specjalny Date Night: drinki 2 w cenie 1, szkicowanie na luzie, pokazy na żywo i wiele więcej. Zanurz się w paryskim szyku bez opuszczania miasta! 🖼️🍸

    👉 met.org/SargentDateNight
    #Sargent #nocwmuzeum #sztuka
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  20. 🚨🔄 Josh #Sargent’s strong performances have attracted interest from several Bundesliga and Premier League clubs. The 25-y/o striker has scored 12 goals and provided 5 assists in the current Championship season for Norwich.

    His price for a summer transfer is set at €15-20m. Sargent is planning his next step, with his contract running until 2028 without a release clause.

    @[email protected] 🇺🇸