Ideas, hopes and dreams for
a better world of work and life
Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
Muhammad Ali
We all live in a bit of a bubble I think – the main characters in our own biopic. Sometimes the supporting cast struggle a bit with the plot, and sometimes the extras can be just so annoying, but we’re in our bubble and in there we’re safe, we’re protected, and we’re able to be ourselves.
This is my bubble.
Welcome. Feel free to have a look around and see what you like. Or don’t like. That’s okay too. There’s a decent chance that I haven’t thought about it from inside your bubble.
While this is still unfinished…
We like things that end cleanly, right? A launch, a decision. a delivery. Something we can point at and say, “that’s done”. Clean endings give us a sense of control. They make the effort feel justified. They let us compress weeks or months of work into a sentence or two, maybe starting with “well, what…
Borrowing from tomorrow
[Prefer to listen? Here’s an AI generated version of my voice reading this out so you don’t have to. I know, right??] I’m ill. I’ve been ill for a few days now. Not catastrophically ill. Not heroically ill. Just that grey, flattened version where standing up feels like a negotiation …and your body keeps reminding…
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