Distortion isn’t deception or failure.

It’s what happens when signal is translated, summarized, and reshaped inside complex systems.

In this episode of Signal Reflection, we explore how distortion quietly takes hold, why it feels reasonable, and how organizations slowly lose contact with reality while believing they’re acting with clarity.

The danger isn’t distortion itself.

It’s mistaking distortion for truth.

Signal is the quiet truth inside every organization — the part that exists before the metrics, the meetings, the language, and the stories we tell to make sense of things. Most leaders never hear it, not because it isn’t there, but because the noise of the system has grown louder than the signal itself.

In this opening episode of Signal Reflection, we explore what signal really is, how organizations lose contact with it, and why reconnecting to it changes everything.

This isn’t a framework or a method.

It’s the beginning of learning how to listen again.

A first look at Signal Reflection — a new short-form series exploring how signal, distortion, and perception shape the systems we live and work in. This preview introduces the tone and intention of the show, offering a glimpse into the reflective space each episode will create.