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About the Essays
My essays return to recurring themes that reflect my questions about people, work, organisation, and technology.
Below, they are organised by theme, series, and reflections. Scroll through to see what’s available, or use the search bar to find what interests you.
Essays by Theme
Essays grouped by theme.
The human experience of work: trust and accountability, burnout and hope, performance and meaning.
Organisational change and reform, institutional failure, and what it means to act, judge and hope inside modern systems.
Authority, judgement, charisma, emotion, silence, time, and leadership's moral demands.
Hybrid and flexible work, productivity and presence, and how leadership adapts as the meaning of work changes.
Attention, failure and learning, why activity crowds out originality, and how ideas emerge in organisations.
Institutional reform, professional identity, trust and privacy, and the human foundations of security.
Trust and dissent, leadership and power, measurement and meaning, and why doing the right thing is rarely simple.
Meaning and skill, generational change, the limits of "soft skills", and how people find direction over a working life.
AI and human responsibility, creativity and boredom, augmentation and judgement, and what it means to learn and become.
Essays in Series
A series of essays exploring a central idea.
Rethinking Institutional Reform
Power, responsibility, and why change so often falters when process displaces judgement.
Bureaucracy as a human and institutional practice: authority, accountability, and the forces that shape public life.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and institutional change.
Observations on walking, movement, and meaning.
Looking forward to 2026's challenges.
Reflections
The Reflections section is more experimental. Speculative thoughts live there.
One-off thoughts and ideas.
Haikus with reflective prose on judgement, uncertainty, habit, intuition and power.