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Essays & field notes

Ideas on how value gets made, moved, and sometimes missed.

A small collection of writing on strategy, markets, leadership and the quieter habits that keep a working mind sharp. Each piece is short, opinionated, and meant to be read in one sitting.

The writing

10 pieces
01
Global risk

Geopolitical Volatility and the New Risk Calculus for Healthcare

Why the next shock to a hospital may start a continent away; and how health systems are learning to price that in.

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02
Industry & AI

Australia's Manufacturing Renaissance: Can AI Rebuild What We Outsourced?

A sector that shrank from a third of the economy to a sliver. Whether intelligence, not labour, is the way back.

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03
Work & mind

The Ritual of Focus: What Coffee Teaches Us About Deep Work

The cup matters less than the ritual around it. A short defence of structured attention.

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04
Movement

The Meditative Mile: Why Running Is Thinking in Motion

On the strange clarity that arrives somewhere around the third kilometre.

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05
People & AI

Empowering People in the Age of AI: Augmentation, Not Replacement

The interesting question isn't what AI can do. It's what it frees people to do better.

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06
Leadership

Leadership in the Age of Transformation: Steering Change Without Losing People

Most transformations don't fail on strategy. They fail on the human dip in the middle.

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07
Finance

The Future of Finance: How Blockchain Is Rewiring Trust

Strip away the noise and one idea remains: a way to agree on what's true without a middleman.

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08
Culture

The Activist Employee: When Change Agents Become the Organisation's Conscience

The person who keeps asking "why do we do it this way?" is an asset; until they're treated as a threat.

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09
Strategy

Creating and Capturing Value: The Two Disciplines Every Strategy Must Master

Plenty of companies create enormous value and capture almost none of it. The gap is where strategy lives.

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10
Markets

Nepal's New Political Landscape: A New Chapter for Business and Capital

Political renewal is the easy headline. Whether it translates into investable confidence is the real test.

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