One works on something prior to publication and discovers issues.

The other works at the initial collision between an idea and a person, pushing into the unknown and discovering something new.

For property, many people are trying to fix bugs in the system. Co-housing. Community-led property development. Ethical financing. Open-source housing. Low-energy design. Life-cycle product analysis.

There aren’t many test pilots. People willing to take something cobbled together from the best of the experts and take it for a spin. To take a risk and put their skin in the game for the sake of discovering something new.

Welcome to my little corner of the internet.

I believe that place matters.

Our connection to whatever little corner of the planet we find ourselves in, or choose to place ourselves on, matters.

I'm relentlessly curious and continually learning.

My interests are scattered across topics including property, strategy, acoustics, psychology, theology, systems theory, quantum physics and leadership. I read, listen, watch, and learn about whatever grabs my attention in the moment.

This is a learning experiment.

I come here to try to make sense of something I’ve come across, by writing about it.

I’m immersing myself in a new language.

I’m learning to speak Te Reo Māori, the language of the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand and one of our official languages. After spending 2020 studying, I’m figuring out how to keep the journey going outside the classroom.

You’re welcome to follow along.