Cultivated

The Rule of 150 is not really about headcount. It is about the moment when shared meaning stops travelling naturally — when the story that once held everything together begins to thin. A practical exploration of what organisations lose as they grow, and how to protect it.

The word courage comes from the Latin cor — the heart. To listen to what your heart is telling you and to follow it. Not the cinematic version. The quieter, more subversive original meaning. A personal reflection on courage as attention rather than performance.

Ideas don't create value on their own. Artefacts do. A podcast became a poem became a zine.

A good startup, like a good story, often begins quickly. Then comes the middle — the part no one can skip, no pitch deck can summarise, and no one warned you about. A reflection on what the messy middle really asks of the people inside it.

Frustration is energy with nowhere to go. Apathy is energy that has already left. One is a signal worth listening to. The other is a warning you may have already missed.

We are drawn to mechanisms. Frameworks. Methods. Processes. But mechanisms are internal cost. Outcomes are external value. A short, sharp essay on why clarity of purpose must come before any debate about method.

Rory Sutherland has a rare gift for saying uncomfortable truths with warmth and humour. One observation landed hard: creativity is scarce in organisations not because people lack imagination, but because systems quietly discourage it.

We often talk about learning as something we consume. But learning only becomes meaningful when it changes behaviour.

I rarely use the word "Agile." It carries too much baggage. And yet, not a month goes by without someone asking about an "Agile PMO."