What I talk about when I talk about humans.
This is where I think out loud. Think reflective research and hot takes had a baby with popular culture. I try to make sense of what we’re all doing here and drop some mics and some love bombs.
You’ll find essays, reflections, emerging ideas, and the occasional strong opinion about how humans actually work individually and collectively (or don’t).
There are also podcast conversations where I get to test these “vague theories” in real time with clever people. You can find them under the button.
Consider this the lab - thoughtful, exploratory, and sometimes gloriously unfinished.
Homines ex machina
The question isn’t how much more we can do; it’s how wisely we can work within the limits of our beautifully finite, human selves. Doing less, done right, is not the end of ambition - it’s the beginning of endurance in ambiguity.
Leandership
Perhaps the real question for leaders is not how do we get more from people, but what can we remove from the system so people have access to more of themselves to give collectively for the present and future greater good that our regulated nervous systems call growth.
You say VUCA, I say complex: human systems and the future(s) of leadership
When leading complexity, the observer is not outside of the observed.
You are cyneough. But leadership is complex.
Are you cyneough as a leader? We all are, but we need to understand the complexity of our contexts.
Leading self vs leading safe.
Safety is a much used work in leadership and org culture, but the bigger understanding is how do we lead our self to safety?
Listen to lead
Listening is a full body activity, and one of the most primal forms of establishing trust and getting to the congruence of communication.
Interoception as signals of safety
The call is coming from inside the house…
The mislabelled emotions of leadership
Feelings are signals, when we know how to interpret them and anticipate them, we can radically shift how we understand the world and our place in it.
Which people pleaser are you?
Can all the people i’ve pleased form an orderly line. Oh wait. There’s no one there.
Unpacking the myths of normal
What we normalise we calcify fail to be curious about at our peril, beginning with human behaviour.