Authors

Clara Inkwell (Inkie) is the official keeper of the errata at Steerania. When a reader spots something off, she is the one who logs it, verifies it, and pins it down in plain sight. No drama, no blame, just a clean record of what slipped through and how it was fixed.

She reviews articles before they go live, removing what should not be there and keeping what matters.

Outside of that, she carries a pencil, not for aesthetics, but because it has an eraser.

Self-proclaimed corporate anthropologist with decades of experience observing the simulation from the inside. Engineer. Nomad. Currently UAE-based. Linux user in a Windows world. Companion to a Jack Russell named Maze.

Writing is an act of rebellion for those still stuck in the fluorescent trenches. It is a project driven by a sensitivity to the human cost of a game not played fairly. The pen name belongs to no single gender and separates the work from the individual, allowing the ideas to stand alone.

Reader mail welcome: [email protected]

Maximilian ROI has spent thirty years inside organizations large enough to have a Vision Statement and self-aware enough to ignore it. He has run the offsites. He has said synergy in front of a board, with a straight face and a waterfall chart, and meant it.

Today, Max is the Dean of Steerania’s School of Bullshit. He describes this as his pro bono contribution to society. He takes the role completely seriously, which is itself the joke.

The dictionary exists because the language of business is a craft, and like most crafts it is easier to participate in than to explain. Max has decided, at this point in his career, that explanation is the more interesting option. He is not here to expose the system. He helped build it.