Why I Write
I don’t write to be heard.
I write so things don’t go untold.
Essays on how organisations work and why they often don’t, and on living deliberately. Plus anything I’m genuinely curious about — which is most things.
Essays
Work~7 min read
Why engineering organisations can't deliver what they promise
The gap between what engineering teams plan and what they ship isn't a people problem. It's a structural one.
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Life~6 min read
A strategy isn’t a plan until it’s feasible
It took me two years to build a strategy for my life, and one two-mile run to find out why it wasn’t working.
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Life~2 min read
Can we be heroes again?
Heroism isn't a single extraordinary act anymore — it's the accumulation of small, ordinary moral choices, and whether we're willing to make them.
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Spoken word
~1 min read
The Spiral
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~1 min read
Why I Do What I Do
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