The Age of Mastery
How specialisation built the modern world, and what it quietly cost.
Still forming
Weave
A framework way of thinking about leadership. Not finished yet.
Most writing about leadership arrives already certain. This is an attempt to arrive with better questions.
The question underneath all of it: why do organisations full of capable people so often produce less than they should — not through failure, but through ordinary friction? People working hard, in the wrong directions, in systems not designed to hold together.
These essays follow a thread I've been pulling on for a while. I call it Weave. Not because it's a complete framework finished — it isn't — but because weaving is the right image for the work: holding things together that would otherwise drift apart.
The four parts — See the Threads, Work the Loom, Find the Pattern, Create the Fabric — are habits more than a method. A book is probably in here somewhere. For now, this is where it lives.
The essays
- 01← start here if you want the full arc
- 02
The Great Unravelling
How complexity broke the logic of control — and why tightening the grip made it worse.
- 03
The Specialist Dilemma
Expertise shapes identity. Why that makes adaptation feel like betrayal.
this one is harder than it sounds - 04
Beyond the T-Shape
The T-shaped professional was the right model for a complicated world. What the complex one needs instead.
- 05
The Four Disciplines of Weave
Where the argument turns from diagnosis to practice.
← or start here if you want practical