Field Notes
Written in Grease
Logs, callouts, and scars from the floor
The truth lives in callouts, not conference rooms.
Field Note of the Week
Truth Breaks Things That Needed Breaking

Some posts aren’t content — they’re a wrench thrown into a bad system. This week’s note is one of those. It doesn’t ask permission. It doesn’t soften the edges. It calls out the gap between what leadership says and what the crew lives through every shift.

From David Gilkes-Flaborn on LinkedIn

Truth is disruptive, but only to the things that needed breaking: fake PMs, fantasy KPIs, and cultures that reward the wrong people. If your system can’t survive honesty from the floor, it was already cracked.

Read the full note on LinkedIn
Live from the floor
LinkedIn Field Notes

These aren’t theory threads or conference slides. These are live pulls from the feed — straight from David’s LinkedIn, where the movement is already in motion. Each post is a snapshot of what crews are actually dealing with.

Field Note 01
Truth grenade aimed at the gap between real work and leadership fantasy.
Field Note 02
A shift story that exposes what “ownership” actually looks like when things go sideways.
Field Note 03
Callout on metrics that look clean in PowerPoint and rotten in the storeroom.
Field Note 04
A culture check disguised as a simple question — and why the answer matters.
Field Note 05
A reality check on how reliability actually gets built shift by shift.
Field Note 06
A shot across the bow at alphabet-soup credentials with zero crew credibility.
Field Note 07
Notes from the edge of burnout — and what real support should look like.
See all Field Notes on LinkedIn
The Record
Why Field Notes Exist

If it isn’t written down, it never happened. If it’s rewritten, someone is hiding the truth. Field Notes are how we keep receipts when the official story forgets who stayed late, who took the heat, and who actually kept the lights on.

These are not sanitized reports. They’re scars, stories, and small revolutions — logged in public so nobody can pretend they didn’t see it coming.