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When the Work Doesn't Fit Inside Your Head
A six-week practice in using AI to think, build, and make sense of complex work.
Jul 10
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AI as a Thinking Partner - New Substack Section
What happens when you stop using AI for answers
Jul 10
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From Purpose to Pattern
What if purpose isnt something we find, but something that becomes available when our lives align with who we are?
Jul 3
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June 2026
The Shape of Community
Sliding doors and elevator conversations - three neighbourhoods, and what they taught me about belonging
Jun 23
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Developmental Aperture Architecture: Opening the Conversation
A working map of human development and an invitation to explore it together.
Jun 23
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Learning that other people are real..
I was lost in thought this morning about a time when I was in early elementary school and my little sister’s birthday came to pass.
Jun 16
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May 2026
Systems move through rhythms
Problems often emerge when we mistake one phase for the whole story.
May 11
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We’ve Been Here Before
On empathy, recurrence, and what we seem to forget
May 1
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April 2026
Optimization creates speed. Integration creates direction.
There’s a growing mismatch between the kind of leadership we’ve been optimizing for and the kind now required.
Apr 20
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A Beginning: On Sympathy, Imagination, and Society
The world has learned to rely on a kind of intellectual telephone game where ideas pass from person to person and are increasingly simplified…
Apr 19
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It’s often not the loud changes that matter most.
It’s the quiet withdrawals - the things that disappear before we’ve fully understood what they were holding in place.
Apr 10
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The Villainous Hero - Spoken Reading
When “saving the day” quietly destroys the system
Apr 6
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