Where the map runs out
The best ground is never on the marked trail. Thirty years in property and construction, and the case for building it differently.
Four things I’ve come to believe
The operating system always wins.
Fragmentation is a choice, not an accident.
Technology is the easy part.
The interesting ground is off the marked trail.
Recent writing
All writing →Thursday Nights
Seven of us around a card table on a Thursday night, one of them leaving for Riyadh. I'd waited twenty-five years to work overseas, and what it showed me turned out to be about me, not the place.
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The Window Was Open
A new team, no legacy, and every collaboration tool already installed and paid for. Within a fortnight we were running the whole thing through email. Nobody decided that.
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Why the Property Sector Can't Seem to Evolve
A retail feasibility that wouldn't stack, no matter how we ran the numbers. What struck me wasn't the result. It was the room.
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Off Piste
New writing, roughly monthly. No noise.