About

I write about the gap between how organisations actually work and how we pretend they work.

After spending years in technology consulting, I’ve watched systematic approaches applied to domains that fundamentally resist systematisation. We treat people as resources in engineering systems. We apply industrial frameworks to human challenges. We try to codify what cannot be codified.

The results are predictable: organisations that optimise for everything except the humans doing the work.

As we face the Pandora’s box of artificial intelligence, these questions become more urgent. How do we create systems that serve human potential rather than constraining it? How do we reject the framework thinking that reduces people to interchangeable components? How do we build a future that remembers we’re actually human?

This blog explores those uncomfortable conclusions – personal thinking about technology, work, consciousness, and what it means to be human in increasingly systematised environments. The observations here come from decades of watching organisations struggle with the tension between efficiency and humanity, between optimisation and meaning, between what the frameworks promise and what actually works.

These are personal explorations, not professional positions. They’re meant to provoke thought, not provide answers. Some will resonate. Others will irritate. That’s the point.

Day job: Platform architecture and open source strategy.

This place: Philosophy, creative thinking, and my writing outlet.

Being human, works.