cultivated notes

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.

Editorial space is infinite. Attention space is scarce. Most organisations get this backwards — publishing more content and creating less understanding. A practical case for designing communication for human attention rather than organisational efficiency.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice — it is conformity. In organisations, conformity is often the default. A practical exploration of bravery as a quiet, consequential organisational behaviour.

We often talk about learning as something we consume. But learning only becomes meaningful when it changes behaviour.

Why the best business improvements are often obvious — and how learning to notice simplicity can unlock clarity, alignment, and momentum.

A catalogue notebook is neither diary nor to-do list. It is a personal archive of ideas, reflections, and plans — a quiet studio for thinking beyond meetings and frameworks.

The Drama Triangle describes three roles that appear in moments of conflict — Persecutor, Victim, Rescuer. In a single conversation, people move between them without noticing. A practical lens for understanding how energy moves into politics rather than progress.

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 career development is generic. The Trinity of Career Development — behaviour, strengths, wellbeing — is a framework for knowing yourself before you grow.