There is a Japanese word for the regret that something of value never got the chance to become what it could have been.
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There is a Japanese word for the regret that something of value never got the chance to become what it could have been.
Physics — Idea to Value
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Feb 10, 2026
In 1944, the OSS published a manual on how to quietly sabotage organisations. Eighty years later, many of its tactics have become standard corporate practice. Read it and you'll recognise your own workplace.
In 1944, the OSS published a manual on how to quietly sabotage organisations. Eighty years later, many of its tactics have become standard corporate practice. Read it and you'll recognise your own workplace.
Engine — Creativity & Climate
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Jan 27, 2026
Clarity. Creativity. Attention. Care. The courage to act on what you already know. These aren't management techniques. They're human ones. A long-form photo essay across eight cities and one recurring pattern.
Clarity. Creativity. Attention. Care. The courage to act on what you already know. These aren't management techniques. They're human ones. A long-form photo essay across eight cities and one recurring pattern.
Engine — Creativity & Climate
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Feb 17, 2025
Life cannot be balanced — only oriented. This essay explores the Pillars of Life: a way of looking at the tensions across the pillars that make us who we are.
Life cannot be balanced — only oriented. This essay explores the Pillars of Life: a way of looking at the tensions across the pillars that make us who we are.
Most organisational failures aren't caused by bad strategy — they are failures of shared understanding. Why communication sits at the root of so many business problems.
Most organisational failures aren't caused by bad strategy — they are failures of shared understanding. Why communication sits at the root of so many business problems.
Flywheel — Learning & Practice
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May 27, 2020
For years I assumed careers simply happened to us. Thriving, I've learned, is not an accident. It is a choice.
For years I assumed careers simply happened to us. Thriving, I've learned, is not an accident. It is a choice.
Wiring — Communication
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May 05, 2020
Effective communication is not a technique to be mastered, but a human craft to be practised. This essay explores why communication remains the most transferable skill in working life — and how it quietly shapes influence, leadership, and the movement of ideas.
Effective communication is not a technique to be mastered, but a human craft to be practised. This essay explores why communication remains the most transferable skill in working life — and how it quietly shapes influence, leadership, and the movement of ideas.
Wiring — Communication
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Jan 12, 2018
We were trained to speak. Very few of us were trained to listen. A quiet exploration of listening as active work — and why attention is the rarest gift we can offer another person
We were trained to speak. Very few of us were trained to listen. A quiet exploration of listening as active work — and why attention is the rarest gift we can offer another person
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May 18, 2026
Meeting Notes is Cultivated's weekly letter — Sent via email, also in the members' archive. This week: A story about jobs, AI and rising costs
Physics — Idea to Value
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May 11, 2026
A senior leader stands in front of a slide titled "Our Product Operating Model" and describes, in fluent jargon, what is essentially a project plan with new vocabulary. The shift most enterprises are making from projects to products is real — and it is rarely the shift they think it is.
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May 10, 2026
Meeting Notes is Cultivated's weekly letter — This week: A solid idea is not the same as a valuable one. Sent Sunday. This is the members only archive version.
Meeting Notes is Cultivated's weekly letter — This week: Thinking about the gap between action and knowing. Sent Sunday. This is the members only archive version.
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Physics — Idea to Value
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Apr 28, 2026
Most organisations have feedback. They just have it too late. By the time the quarterly review arrives, six months of small signals have compounded into one large, expensive surprise — and the window for response has already closed.
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Wiring — Communication
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Apr 23, 2026
Most organisational problems don’t start with strategy or process — they start with misunderstanding. This piece explores why communication is the wiring that connects ideas to value.
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Physics — Idea to Value
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Apr 22, 2026
Ten executives. Six meetings. A thousand-pound broadband decision. An essay on why debate, at every altitude of the business, is cost — and why small tests are the fastest way to move any idea, in any function, toward any kind of value.
Map — Orientation
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Apr 21, 2026
At a conference, a senior engineer told me he couldn't find a good job. Twenty minutes later, a hiring manager told me she couldn't find good people. They were both right, and they were describing the same problem from opposite sides.
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Physics — Idea to Value
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Apr 21, 2026
In the right hands, a team's metrics are a mirror. In the wrong hands, the same numbers become a lever. An essay on why team-level metrics should never be used to compare teams — and what actually goes wrong when leaders reach down for the numbers.
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