Work the index
The list below is deliberately dense: scan dates, titles, and excerpts quickly, then open the essay that catches the thread.
Twenty-four articles per page keep the archive moving without making each card compete for attention.
Category: Articles
Roadmap
Read with direction.
Use this category as a focused corridor, then widen the map when a related question starts pulling you into another part of the archive.
Start with foundations
When you want the personal and philosophical base of the archive, begin with the Theory of the World essays.
Cross the boundary
Most useful ideas do not stay in one lane. Move sideways when a theme needs another lens.
Return to the whole
Step out of this category when you want the full field rather than one territory.
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Digital Waste Is Now Digital Gold
Years ago, I asked a simple question: Who owns your digital waste? At the time, the question lived mainly in the old digital paradigm. The concern was…
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Bridging the Digital Skills Divide in Africa: A Q&A
(Introduction) Introduce the topic & agenda. Get a sense of who is in the audience to help best drive the conversation Panel introduce themselves, their…
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Experience as Evidence, Not Time Served
The Profoundness of Experience By Dr Riaan Steenberg Experience is not the same as time served.
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Vistas of Opportunity
Vistas to opportunity An open mind gives you a vista to a world of opportunity. A vista, being a narrow path through which you can see something that would…
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Career Design Around Taste, Tools, and Judgement
Careers Steve Jobs Would Want You to Think About By Dr Riaan Steenberg Steve Jobs did not build his life around a narrow job description.
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Human Work in the Age of Intelligent Tools
Careers for a World of Intelligent Tools By Dr Riaan Steenberg Artificial intelligence changes the career question.
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Embrace the Energy of Judgement
We think of judgement as something that is done to others to determine if they are guilty or innocent, but it is essential to distinguish between justice and…
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Why Choices Need Context
Choices Do Not Define You By Dr Riaan Steenberg The phrase sounds attractive: your choices define you.
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Purpose, Context, and Patterns of Choice
Context, Purpose, and the Choices We Make By Dr Riaan Steenberg A choice is important, but it is rarely the whole story.
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What Will Academia Look Like in 100 Years
By Riaan Steenberg May 2019 As we are discussing the characteristics of the emerging fourth industrial revolution, it seems that the future role of education…
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Project Managing the Start-up
Start-ups can gain a lot from project management methodologies and this article gives an outline of the main project management process that a start-up goes…
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Thriving on Recession
By Riaan Steenberg Can your business survive a recession? It is easy to forget that recessions have been happening since the beginning of time and that there…
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The National Narrative Around South Africa Is Highly Flawed
South Africa often speaks about itself in the wrong language. We describe the country as if the central problem is always access to finance, access to…
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Negotiating Better
A negotiation is any form of engagement that is aimed at achieving or enhancing an agreement.
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The Dominant Impression
The dominant impression – triggers of emotion Love, hate or laughter? These are some of the inevitable responses in the human condition. Sometimes you meet…
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Structural Compassion
Structural compassion Societies are defined by what is important to them. The things that are important to them is reflected in the elements that they create…
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Are Fewer Products Better for You
Are fewer products better for you? Being an entrepreneur is a unique challenge. While you need to focus, you also need to adapt. We live in a world that is…
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Expand Your Organisational Capabilities – Use It or Lose It
An organisation is essentially a set of capabilities that combine to achieve specific objectives.
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When Adaptability Meets Change
By Riaan Steenberg Tumi, last year’s employee of the year, storms out of the room after a major altercation with her boss about poor job descriptions, bad…
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Reconstruction – Beyond Holism
Reconstruction – beyond holism The doctrine of holism shows us that all that is, is part of a greater system and that each system of even a larger system.
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Data Exhaust and Digital Ownership
Who Owns Your Digital Waste By Dr Riaan Steenberg Every digital action leaves residue. Searches, clicks, unsubscribes, locations, abandoned forms, old…
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Digital Traces Platforms Keep
The Hidden Ledger of Digital Waste By Dr Riaan Steenberg The modern internet keeps a ledger most people never see.