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On structures and spillages
Whether we design them or let them happen, structures of all shapes and sizes come to exist wherever we are, including in our workplaces....
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Jun 193 min read
On the patience of planting seeds
In these busy, noisy times, it can feel like every second of every minute of every hour needs to be filled with action or considered...
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May 12 min read
On the civilising power of technology
A catalyst for human development, we wouldn’t be who we are without each technological stride.
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Mar 312 min read
On standing still
The idea of stillness can be counterintuitive. We seem to think that constant movement, doing as much as possible at the same time, is...
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Feb 12 min read
On life's footnotes
Life unfolds in a series of footnotes. Subtle annotations we add to the margins of our existence with each experience and lesson learned:...
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Jan 22 min read
On the allure of newness
As the calendar turns its fresh page once again, the allure of newness takes hold. The excitement of the New Year: the lure of the...
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Dec 1, 20232 min read
On knowing when to quit
Not every battle is worth fighting. But quitting is a dirty word and giving up is frowned upon. Quitting is for losers. Yet moments...
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Oct 18, 20232 min read
On doing the thing, then showing it
We’ll spend an average of 90,000 hours at work over our lifetime. That's around 10 years of your life. It’s no wonder that work can...
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Sep 4, 20232 min read
On looking beneath the surface and world records
Since it came into being in 1955, the Guinness World Records continues to document great feats in human history. The weird and wonderful,...
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Jul 31, 20232 min read
On gifting something to get excited about
When you think about it, life can be quite repetitive and routinary. We wake up, shower, go to school or work, interact with others, make...
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Jul 2, 20232 min read
On agile and war machines
There are other ways to structure and distribute power. Set against rigid and slow traditional organisations is the war machine. Despite...
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Jun 28, 20232 min read
On the structures that shape us
The organisations we build distribute power across their structures, shaping the way we think and behave and producing a certain type of per
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Apr 30, 20233 min read
On rewiring the world
From the nomadic footpaths of the first people to orbiting satellites that spin the world wide web, humans have laid out a complex layer...
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Mar 1, 20232 min read
On the thermodynamics of design
The energy in any closed, isolated system remains constant over time. This is the law of conservation of energy. As the saying goes,...
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Feb 24, 20232 min read
On the stories we tell
Our world is a web of stories; strung together, tangled, knotted, crisscrossing continents, generations, centuries, millennia. Extending,...
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Jan 15, 20232 min read
On being the tiniest nail
Looking back when another year passes, it’s easy to downplay or even forget how much we achieved. At work, we might be worn down from...
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Nov 30, 20223 min read
On optimism and cultivating your garden
It was the morning of Saturday, 1 November 1755, All Saints' Day. Europe woke in shock and convulsed as unfathomable news spread fast. A...
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Oct 27, 20223 min read
On AI and the things that make us human
It seems to be happening. Yet it’s been happening for a while. From beating world chess champion Gary Kasparov in the 90s to becoming the...
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Sep 1, 20223 min read
On breaking the rules
Rules exist for a reason. As soon as we’re born, we’re thrown into a world of structure and regularity. Limits and borders. Patterns and...
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Aug 15, 20223 min read
On a debt of attention
It’s one of those common-sense truisms: something that seems easy to grasp on the surface but is a hard pill to swallow. Or a difficult...
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