Creating the conditions for growth.

Creating the conditions for growth.

Some things arrive unstructured: a person between one version of themselves and the next, or an organization running on habit because nobody ever built the system. I do the same work in both.

Some things arrive unstructured: a person between one version of themselves and the next, or an organization running on habit because nobody ever built the system. I do the same work in both.

HOW I WORK

I read the conditions before I recommend anything.

I don’t arrive with the deck already written. A phalaenopsis and an anthurium don’t get the same treatment, and neither do two companies. What I build has to survive inside the culture that already exists.

Care is not control.

Do everything right and you still don’t own the outcome. Show up fully, then loosen the grip.

Tending is a hundred small acts of attention.

Not one dramatic intervention. Notice, respond, come back tomorrow, notice again.

Removal is part of architecture.

The question isn’t how to make this work. It’s whether it belongs here at all.

Some things take up space without contributing anything meaningful to the structure. And when you leave them in place, you don’t just keep them, you actually start to build around them.

Some things take up space without contributing anything meaningful to the structure. And when you leave them in place, you don’t just keep them, you actually start to build around them.

FROM

Not everything needs to stay

I write about this.

Essays on noticing what a system is doing and adjusting one condition at a time. No schedule.

READ THE ESSAYS

I write about this.

Essays on noticing what a system is doing and adjusting one condition at a time. No schedule.

READ THE ESSAYS

I write about this.

Essays on noticing what a system is doing and adjusting one condition at a time. No schedule.

READ THE ESSAYS