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.
-
12 Powerful Processes Towards Inner Freedom
To be free is one of the most complex ideas ever. We are never truly free. There is always an attachment or something that we will need from another. At a…
-
Keep Moving Forward
To be free we have to move on the next thing. The previous thing will get us stuck. It does not mean that we have to hop around from job to job or from…
-
Face Your Demons and Discover Your Angels
Inside each of us, there are fears and hopes. We have to run towards these and unshackle ourselves from that which inhibits us from achieving our true…
-
Find Your Inner Creator
Something in you wants to get out. It may be your music, your writing, your photography, your gardening. In you, there exists a creator that wants to make…
-
Excellence Beats the Systems
Systems are not defeated by complaint. They are improved by people who understand the process, restore its purpose, and move work through it with discipline and humanity.
-
Listen to Yourself – and Be Yourself
Inside of you, there is a genius. Listen to this genius. Inside of you there is also a self critic and a dark side. Do not shy away from this. You need to…
-
Let the Weight Go
Think of a time when you were carefree and had no worries in the world. Compare that with where you are now and what is different. Let the feelings that you…
-
Take a Male and a Female Perspective
The original idea behind this note was simple: step outside your own view. The old language was male and female. That language can easily become too narrow, too stereotyped and too blun…
-
Connect Unconnected Things
Take five things are unconnected and or unrelated and link them. The link may not be easy and may elude you for a while – but you will find it eventually….
-
Decide If You Are Being Repelled or Attracted
When you realise that you are not free – you have to realise that something is holding you.
-
Shift Dramatically and Live Incrementally
When the direction is wrong, change clearly; when the direction is right, build patiently through small repeated acts of alignment.
-
Be All That You Can Be
At some point in life we realise that we are going to die one day and all of a sudden, we start doing more, being more and taking more responsibility.
-
Release Your Subjects
We often imagine ourselves as the centre of the world. We do not say it that directly, but we live as if other people are part of our kingdom. They must understand us, respond to us, ag…
-
Gratitude
There is a lot wrong in the world today. In many ways it boils down to one basic thing – gratitude. Gratitude is the anti-thesis of all the major sins. Lust…
-
Combining Vision with Action
We often think that vision is something that is out there. Since I have completed my MBA, which included research on high performance in small teams, I have…
-
Simplicity
Is there such a thing as simplicity? It is a surprisingly complex thing to make things simple. You have to search for the essence of what is – this requires…
-
Thinking Things Through
I recently came across a process for thinking things through. I think it is something that we all should have and be trained on. How many times in life have…
-
Identifying Opportunities
I was thinking today about identifying opportunities. We all get to see the world around us every day. Some of us take this as an opportunity to reflect on…
-
The Hidden Bottom Line
I was asked to advise on some strategies for sales. A long time ago I learnt that one has to look not only for the bottom line and then the hidden bottom…
-
Diving Into Issues
There is a wide debate in project management and other management disciplines that is phrased in the context of asking if it is absolutely necessary for…
-
Bricks
A wise man recently said that what is most astonishing is that the choices that we make have such a profound effect on the outcomes that we experience later…
-
Knowing What We Want
Do we really know what we want. I have realised for myself that the answer is deeply rooted in the ability to picture it in my own mind, not getting stuck on…
-
Exploring Boundaries
Nicola Tesla invented the electricity that you are using in your house now because his teacher told him that it cannot be done.
-
Focus and Inner Peace
We have all tried to focus and to varying degrees succeed. I think it is an essential skills to learn to clear your mind. If we all learnt how to clear our…