I write about finding opportunity in the spaces where conventional business thinking ends.

The walls we build around ourselves—our expertise, our industries, our identities—once offered protection. Now they've become prisons. Every consultant knows their methods, every coach has their framework, every business owner follows their sector's playbook. But the playbook is broken.

The most interesting work happens in the margins, in the conversations between disciplines, in the quiet spaces where small groups gather to solve problems no one else is addressing. This is where craft meets connection, where attention becomes currency, where individuals discover they don't need permission to work differently.

I explore these liminal territories with people who've grown tired of incremental improvements to systems that fundamentally don't work. Who understand that uncertainty isn't a problem to be solved but a condition to be navigated with curiosity rather than fear.

The future belongs neither to the gig economy nor to corporate hierarchies, but to something more interesting: artisanal approaches to knowledge work, intimate economies built on trust and attention, small groups that move fast because they move together.

My writing is for the professionally restless—the consultants whose clients' real problems lie outside their remit, the coaches watching their frameworks crumble, the business owners who sense there's a different game being played. People ready to venture outside the walls they've built, to discover what becomes possible when you stop trying to improve the old and start creating the new.

The opportunity isn't in the centre. It's in the spaces between.

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For those ready to venture outside the walls

This isn't about networking, it's about finding your people. The consultants whose clients' real problems lie outside their expertise. The coaches watching their frameworks crumble. The business owners sensing there's a different game being played.

We gather weekly (Wednesdays, 5 pm UK time) to share discoveries, challenge assumptions, and explore the liminal territories where conventional thinking ends. Small groups that move fast because they move together. No pitches, no protocols, just curious professionals mapping new territory together.

What we explore:

  • Artisanal approaches to knowledge work in an AI world

  • Building intimate economies based on trust and attention

  • Navigating uncertainty as creative opportunity

  • The craft of working between disciplines

Drop me a line if you're ready to discover what's possible in the spaces between.

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