Writing
Essays on work design and the craft of operating well inside complex systems. This is how I think—read a few before you hire me. No gating, no teasers.
What a controversial German philosopher can teach you about creating better organizations—and why the best work design is the kind you get to forget.
Read → No. 09The smallest complete expression of your operating system—and the easiest place to start redesigning it.
Read → No. 08The training paradigm is dying. What the future of getting better at work looks like without it.
Read → No. 07Stochastic resonance, weak signals, and why an organization that’s too quiet is as broken as one that’s too loud.
Read → No. 06What’s left for leaders once you admit an organization can’t actually be driven.
Read → No. 05The most powerful work design move is removal—and why almost nobody makes it.
Read → No. 04Why good thinking dies in badly designed organizations—and what AI changes about that equation.
Read → No. 03Four beliefs that separate organizations that keep improving from the ones that quietly stop.
Read → No. 02The case for building internal work design capacity instead of renting it—the founding argument of this practice.
Read → No. 01Entropy, attention, and why an organization is less like a machine and more like a candle flame.
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