If you’ve got a clean slate, a sandbox, and playground to build in, with no rules, no restrictions, no prerequisites, the only thing standing in the way of you and success is yourself.

You set the task. You define success.

You fail.

Failing hurst, but it’s much more comfortable when someone else has set the agenda, defined the terms, and set out the course. When you fail at a game of your own making, honest self reflection is going to hurt.

But that’s where the growth is. That’s where the future success is. Because most of the time, we’re playing someone else’s game, to someone else rules, with someone else judging us. And while we’re our biggest asset, we’re also our biggest liability.

So go out, make up a game, and fail at it.

The figure out why, and change that.

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.