Notes from the field
Every organisation tells itself a story
The story a company tells about itself is worth examining as closely as the numbers.
Read article →Thinking
Ideas worth sitting with.
This isn't a blog, and it isn't content marketing. It's a running notebook — the patterns, questions, and stories I keep noticing across decades of helping organisations make difficult technology decisions. Read whichever one catches your eye; there's no order to follow. A few of these are also becoming a book.
Notes from the field
The best workshop I ever ran failed
Why the disagreement in the room, not the agreement, is usually the point.
Read article →Notes from the field
Why architecture diagrams lie
A diagram is a hypothesis about a system, not a description of it.
Read article →Scaling & legacy
Three fracture planes for safer legacy migration
A framework for business-led, evidence-based, incremental change.
Read article →AI strategy
AI adoption is an organisational design problem
Why workflow, accountability, quality, and learning matter more than the model.
Read article →Venture technology due diligence
What technical due diligence should actually tell an investor
Diligence should change a term sheet or build genuine confidence — anything else is theatre.
Read article →Good consulting
The craft of good consulting
Why good advice is judgement offered without ego, not delivery capacity for hire.
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