learning
A simple calligraphy pen introduced friction, boundaries, and intention into my thinking. This note explores how small physical tools can subtly change the pace, texture, and quality of our work — not through optimisation, but through boundaries, surface and friction.
Two simple practices — reading and writing — that improve how we think, speak, and convey meaning at work.
Careers don’t move by charisma or luck alone. They move through systems of value, clarity, relationships, and behaviour. A systems view of how advancement actually happens inside organisations.
A reflective Studio note on personal knowledge management, learning systems, and the instruments that help ideas become understanding.
A 1944 CIA sabotage manual reads like a modern corporate playbook. This essay explores how organisations unintentionally slow themselves down — and how leaders can release the friction that kills value.
A Cultivated framework for leading organisational change through narrative. This playbook defines a canonical narrative spine and explains how narrative acts as infrastructure for aligning people, decisions, and action.
A Studio companion to the Cultivated canon on creative rhythm. This piece introduces a Creative Operating System and a five-level maturity model for turning attention, insight, and practice into enduring work.
When everything is a priority, nothing truly is. This essay explores how competing initiatives erode trust, exhaust teams, and stall value — and why clarity is one of leadership’s deepest acts of care.
Plans, org charts, operating models and roadmaps help us explain work — but they are not the work. This essay explores the gap between the diagram and the day, and why leadership becomes more effective when it stays close to lived reality.