Resources

Things tothink with.

Essays and interactive instruments from the practice. Free, and yours to keep.

Essay · 8 min

Why Philosophy Matters More Than Ever

We don’t have an information problem. We have a judgement problem.

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Instrument · For individuals

The Ground Beneath

Find the assumptions beneath how you see, know, value and act.

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Essay · 7 min

Who Are You When They Stop Introducing You By What You Did?

Retirement from elite sport as the start of a philosophical career.

Instrument · For individuals

The Spiral Mirror

The values you admire, the ones you live, and the ones that take over under pressure.

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Essay · 6 min

Are You Building an Energetic Frog or a Fat F***ing Tadpole?

Why size alone isn’t transformation.

Instrument · For individuals

The Self You Are Making

A mirror for how you choose, conform, hide and become.

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Essay · 7 min

The Hidden Difference Between a Machine and a Living System

Why intelligent organisations keep creating stupid outcomes.

Instrument · For individuals

The Energy to Perceive

What your organism currently has available for thought and choice.

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Essay · 8 min

You Can’t Think Beyond the Energy Your Organism Can Supply

Why the energy to perceive is so crucial.

Instrument · For organisations

The Syntropy Scan

Where your organisation creates coherence, and where it leaks energy.

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Essay · 6 min

You Aren’t One Colour

Why the most mature minds don’t think in just one way.

Instrument · Before you begin

Thinking Fit

Seven minutes to see whether this way of working would suit you.

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Essay · 8 min

What Kind of Self Are You Making?

Authenticity as becoming, rather than finding.

Essay · 7 min

Why You Need to Spend More Time in Graveyards

A Heideggerian footnote to a story about death admin.

Essay · 6 min

The Jazz Organisation

What Mae-Wan Ho understood about coherence.

Essay · 7 min

When You Talk Like Heraclitus But Walk Like Parmenides

The hidden contradiction in how we know the world.

Essay · 5 min

Why We Refuse to Run Syntropise Like a Business

Building a practice around the work, not the customer.

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