A TinyCTO.tv technical parable about organizational memory, undocumented decisions, symbolic artifacts, postmortem evidence. The episode shows that When teams do not record decisions, the strangest artifacts become the only witnesses with context.
"The mascot knows why the migration failed."
"Why does the mascot know that?"
"It attended every steering committee as a sticker."
"Artifacts become witnesses when teams refuse to write decisions down."
The organization gets exactly the outcome its metric or roadmap asked for.