Reproduced from a LinkedIn post February 2026 I’d like to talk about entitlement. Be patient, there is a reason. I use the gym most days. It’s a place that’s traditionally aimed at the older middle class. I guess that’s me now. I watch the Porsche 4x4
Republished from a LinkedIn article from July 2026 I've been reading Scale by Geoffrey West. It’s a challenge, and half the time I have no idea what he is talking about, but there are moments that trigger thought, and the rest is like listening to Radio 4
I've been reading Dirty August, a book of poems by the Turkish poet Edip Cansever, and the part that stayed with me wasn't a poem (I struggle with most poetry, but it was on a sale rack in my local bookshop!). It was the translators'
I’ve a meeting with a ‘tech for good’ consultancy later in the week. I think we share a lot of similar ideas and values, and the discussion could be interesting. I hope they don’t mind the ‘tech for good’ label. It made me think about this as a
Walls of string There is a wall in most conspiracy films. Photographs, newspaper clippings, index cards, and red string connecting them all. The wall is always accurate. The people in the photographs really did meet, the payments really were made, the dates really do line up, and the string is
Innovation is the opium of the boardroom I needed some help with this one and turned to Google and Claude for pointers on Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns, Marc Andreessen, William Nordhaus and the paper by Bloom, Jones, Van Reenen and Webb. None of whom I had heard
What the sinking of the Wasa tells us about how we fail to design and scale innovation today… more inspiration from Scale, by Geoffrey West. The Wasa sank in full view of Stockholm, less than a mile into her maiden voyage. She had been launched with cannon fire, crowds, and
From a LinkedIn post from August 2023, rewritten in July 2026 Time to ditch the technology domain Some time off work, plenty of thinking time, maybe some overthinking, reading, and some challenging work experiences have made me reconsider the role of enterprise architecture and the enterprise architect. As is typical
There is a great deal of good writing about what is wrong with workplaces. Some of it from professionals, some from people writing on their lunch break. I read a lot of it and notice who else is reading it.... the same people who wrote it. I guess, like any
What this book is and isn’t This book is not for everyone, and it is worth saying that at the start. It is not for the expert in systems thinking who has read Beer and Senge and can cite the relevant literature without pausing (I can't, by
In September 1945, a farmer in Fruita, Colorado took an axe to a young Wyandotte rooster and missed the jugular. The bird survived. Not for a few minutes, not in some diminished twilight state, but for eighteen months. Mike, as he came to be known, ate, drank (via eyedropper into
Community looks different depending on where you stand in it. This piece is about designing for all those positions, with a specific focus on the difficult but valuable edge cases. Summary Most community efforts fail slowly, not because people don't care, but because they are designed for those