Cultivated

Some books stay with us not only for what they say, but for when they arrive in our lives. This Cultivated Notes reflection explores the act of giving a book as a quiet form of care, creativity, and belief in someone’s future.

Meditations on Management emerged from fragments, unfinished notes, and ideas left to winter. This essay explores intellectual wintering, the persistence of certain themes, and attention as a quiet discipline of leadership and creative work.

As organisations grow, shared understanding thins. The Rule of 150 is less a number than a moment — when familiarity fades, story fragments, and value slows. This essay explores why narrative continuity, not structure, is the hidden infrastructure of scaling organisations.

A foundational Idea → Value concept: four categories of value that organisations pursue—only one of which directly generates revenue. This Cultivated Notes explainer clarifies how to distinguish effort from impact and create a shared language for teams.

Courage, in its original sense, is the willingness to listen to the heart and act accordingly. A reflection on meaning, work, and the quiet decisions that realign a life.

Ideas rarely create value on their own. They create value when we make something from them — and share that work generously. This short reflection explores how ideas spread, morph, and grow inside organisations, often in ways we never fully see.

Those who hold influence often discover they shape people more than they realise. This Cultivated Notes essay reflects on care, responsibility, and the quiet power leaders carry in shaping the emotional climate around them.

Most organisations don’t lack ideas—they lack climates where ideas can survive. This Cultivated Library essay reframes creativity as an environmental condition and leadership as the design of meaning, space, attention, safety, and constraints.

A good startup unfolds like a good story — fast beginnings, long messy middles, and endings that change us. This essay explores why meaning lives in the middle, and why those who’ve written one story often feel the pull to begin again.