By Joseph Haecker — Editor, Open To Work Social The Illusion of Progress Every era thinks it’s on the cutting edge. We invent, iterate, and automate, telling ourselves that faster is better, that smarter systems equal progress. But what happens when the foundation itself — the thing we’re building on top of — is fundamentally flawed? In business, in tech, in hiring, we’ve become obsessed with solving problems on the surface instead of asking the harder, foundational question: