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Cultivated

Good work doesn't always become value. Cultivated is a body of work exploring how ideas move, why they stall, and what it takes to make work matter.

 |  Engine — Creativity & Climate  | May 26, 2026
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A photo of some cows with the words overlaid - Why Lack of Fun at Work Is a Warning Sign
 |  meeting notes  | May 24, 2026
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The ratio, again - Meeting Notes
 |  Flywheel — Learning & Practice  | May 20, 2026
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 |  meeting notes  | May 18, 2026
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A story about jobs, AI and rising costs - Meeting Notes
Physics — Idea to Value  | May 11, 2026
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 |  meeting notes  | May 10, 2026
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When a good idea isn't enough- Meeting Notes

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Notes on Seeing, Work, and Life

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.

Tech Portfolio Field Guide — Studio Edition

The working field guide behind the Tech Portfolio Library Edition, including principles, templates, governance rhythms, and editor’s field notes.

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Most people don't lack ideas — they lack a structure that lets ideas compound. A Creative Operating System for moving deliberately between open and closed creative modes, with a five-level maturity model for building a sustainable body of work.

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When everything is urgent, urgency loses meaning. A practical exploration of the hidden human cost of competing priorities — how misalignment converts effort into exhaustion, and why clarity is an act of care rather than a management technique.

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Plans, roadmaps, org charts — these are necessary objects. But the object is not the work. A thoughtful exploration of why leadership means staying close to reality rather than defending the model.

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In 1927, Fuller stood by Lake Michigan in crisis — and made a private decision that changed everything. A reflection on how individual choices propagate through systems, and why we are shaping more than we can see.

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Customers whose complaints are resolved well often become more loyal than those who never had a problem. A short reflection on why problems are investments — and why trust is built not by perfection but by behaviour when things go wrong.

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Meditations on Management did not begin as a book. It began as fragments. A reflection on the cabinet of unfinished ideas, on intellectual wintering, and on why persistence is often the signal that something matters.

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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.

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