There are (at least) three essential elements that need to be woven together when designing something for right now:

The Past: What can we learn from recent history and traditional wisdom?
The Present: What are we doing right now that we can explain and understand?
The Emergent: What is on the horizon, on the fringes, on the periphery?

One or two these three is great, but not enough for real impact.

The emergent needs to be connected to what is happening in the present in order to move from the fringe to the mainstream. And understanding the past helps avoid repeating mistakes, and identify what seems new but is actually old, and locate where we are at and where we are going into the longer journey of communities and people.

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.