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When I started writing this blog a couple of years ago, it had a very obvious purpose. It was a way of recording my journey through my Systems Thinking in Practice studies.

7 August 20262 min read

A blank sheet of paper with its top-right corner folded over.

Follow a thought

More to make sense of.

13 March 20264 min read

How did we get here? On the slow drift toward ‘normal’

I was in a meeting recently when someone made a comment that landed badly. Not dramatically – just one of those moments where the energy in the room shifts slightly, a brief…

5 December 20254 min read

A misdiagnosis of tempo

The role of temporal alignment in sustainable change Have you come across the ‘Red Queen hypothesis‘?

21 November 20253 min read

Of scarcity, evolution, and choice

I’ve been thinking lately about scarcity – not so much the literal absence of resources, but the way the sense of scarcity spreads.

7 November 20255 min read

Uncanny

Every so often, I notice a pattern. Someone at work decides I’m brilliant. Yes, I know how that sounds, but I have years of data on this.

16 October 20252 min read

A note from the edge

On the stretch between momentum and meaning-making. Everything seems to have slowed at once.

15 August 20253 min read

One breath longer

Airtime, egos and the Japanese concept of Ma. Have you noticed how the same few voices do most of the talking?

Behind the words

Not polished conclusions.
Working notes.

Reflective essays on the messiness of organisational life, the craft of decision-making, and the patterns of human behaviour.

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