Who Are You When They Stop Introducing You By What You Did?
Why retirement from elite sport isn’t the end of an athletic career but the beginning of a philosophical one. On identity, and who you are when the role is no longer there to answer for you.
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Are You Building an Energetic Frog or a Fat F***ing Tadpole?
Why size alone isn’t transformation. On J. F. Gudernatsch’s thyroid tadpoles, Ray Peat, Bataille’s surplus energy, and why growth without a change of form is just more of the same thing, only bigger.
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The Hidden Difference Between a Machine and a Living System
Why intelligent organisations keep creating stupid outcomes. On Mae-Wan Ho, why order can be imposed but organisation has to emerge, and why every organisation produces exactly what it’s organised to produce.
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You Can’t Think Beyond the Energy Your Organism Can Supply
Why the energy to perceive is so crucial. On Ray Peat, the difference between activation and energy, and why perception itself has energetic conditions we usually mistake for questions of character.
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You Aren’t One Colour
Why the most psychologically mature people don’t think in just one way. On Spiral Dynamics, Clare Graves, and why the real question isn’t which colour you are but what a situation genuinely requires.
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What Kind of Self Are You Making?
Authenticity is less about finding a hidden self than taking responsibility for the self you’re continually making. Six existentialists on the one question underneath, and what your work asks you to become.
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Why You Need to Spend More Time in Graveyards
You can outsource the administration surrounding death. You can’t outsource your own mortality. A Heideggerian footnote to the Octopus Legacy story.
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The Jazz Organisation
What Mae-Wan Ho understood about coherence that most leaders don’t. On global cohesion and local freedom, and why you should stop conducting and teach them to listen.
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When You Talk Like Heraclitus But Walk Like Parmenides
We talk as though the world is always becoming, then try to know it by turning everything into fixed things. On the contradiction hidden in how we know the world.
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Why Philosophy Matters More Than Ever
We don’t have an information problem. We have a judgement problem. On why, in an age of instant answers, the questions matter more than ever.
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Why We Refuse to Run Syntropise Like a Business
Notes on building a practice around the work, not the customer: measuring what a dashboard can’t see, working with fewer people than the maths would suggest, and treating the relationship as longer than the engagement.
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