Clarity can be one of our biggest blind spots. On love triangles, artifice, and why messy thinking can be more coherent than smooth.
Trapped energy and imperfect tools
A Jungian model that, despite its limitations and problems, can help unlock individual and organizational potential.
Deviating from the script
Organizations are collaborative fictions—ritualized, enforced, and rarely examined. The quiet work of recognizing what we’re already performing.
Emotions are not the problem
Emotion isn’t noise—it’s movement, information, and intelligence. When leaders learn to stay present to intensity instead of flattening it, systems think more clearly, not less.
Enigmatic signifiers and organizational cognition
Human systems are animated by meaning that is real and consequential yet not consciously legible. Wise leaders participate in that opacity without trying to resolve it completely or prematurely.
The Six Centers (simplified)
Why culture eats strategy for breakfast, and how to make sense of the competing priorities that all businesses face. A “pocket version” of my original post.
Trauma center
Trauma creates ego and shadow simultaneously. Healing from trauma is how societies, organizations, and individuals release their creative energy.
Drawing the owl
The process for learning complicated things is, ironically, simple. A sequel to my earlier post on simple, complex, and complicated systems.
It’s (partially) complicated
Simple, complex, and complicated systems intermingle, and yet they obey different rules and thrive for different reasons.