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Thought Garden is my personal digital garden: a living collection of notes, reflections, and connected ideas. It’s part notebook, part archive, part workshop.
This is not a polished blog or a final body of work. It’s a living collection of thoughts in progress. Some notes are half-formed, some are practical, and some may change completely as I learn more.
Short intro
Thought Garden is my space for thinking in public, without pretending every idea is finished.
It brings together personal reflection, knowledge management, working notes, and useful fragments I want to keep, connect, and revisit. Some posts are seeds. Some are more developed. Most sit somewhere in between.
Rather than publishing only completed pieces, this garden captures the messier middle: questions, patterns, lessons, references, experiments, and ideas that are still growing.
What you’ll find here
You’ll find a mix of:
- personal reflections
- notes from books, articles, and conversations
- ideas I’m exploring
- practical systems for work and life
- half-built thoughts worth keeping alive
- links between topics that may not obviously belong together, until they do
Why a digital garden
A blog usually presents finished thoughts. A digital garden makes room for thinking that is still developing.
The point is not to sound complete. The point is to make ideas visible, connect them over time, and let them evolve. That feels more honest, and usually more useful.
Tone / philosophy section
I’m interested in clarity over performance, usefulness over polish, and progress over pretending to have everything sorted.
This site is a place to collect what I’m learning, notice recurring themes, and build a body of knowledge that reflects how thinking actually works: gradually, unevenly, and often by surprise.
Latest
2026-06-04 Weeknote - The Gain inside the Gap
Essays
Longer notes exploring delivery leadership, systems thinking, and how work actually moves.
Delivery and operating model
- Delegated does not mean done — Delegation transfers execution, not accountability.
- Kanban, feedback loops, and waiting on — Why "waiting on" needs its own state.
- Team Topologies and the cost of distance — Scaling is a design problem, not a headcount problem.
- Further reading on delegation, visibility, and scale — Questions and experiments worth exploring.
- Cognitive Biases in Delivery Leadership — 12 biases that reliably distort delivery decisions, and how to counter them.
Career, mastery, and meaning
- The Passion Myth — "Follow your passion" is backwards. Passion is downstream of mastery, not a prerequisite for it.
- Deliberate Practice — How to Actually Get Better — Why most people plateau, and what separates activity from practice.
- The Arrival Fallacy — Why hitting the milestone won't fix it, and what to aim at instead.
- Attention as the Primary Resource — What you attend to is your life. The leadership implications of that.
Wellbeing
- Social Fitness — The 85-year Harvard finding: good relationships predict longevity more than anything else.