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type: "commonplace"
title: "Seeing Like a State - by Mike Fisher"
description: ""
author: "Trey Causey"
date: 2026-08-28
slug: "2026-08-28-mikefisher-substack-com-p-seeing-like-a-state-aid-recfghidminaayceb"
url: "https://treycausey.com/commonplace/2026-08-28-mikefisher-substack-com-p-seeing-like-a-state-aid-recfghidminaayceb/"
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sourceTitle: "Seeing Like a State - by Mike Fisher"
sourceUrl: "https://mikefisher.substack.com/p/seeing-like-a-state?aid=recFghIDmINaayceb"
---

> Somewhere in your company is a fixer whose real job appears on no org chart, a Slack channel where the actual coordination happens, a team whose messy process produces suspiciously good results. Before you standardize any of it, ask what the mess might know that the model does not.