Antifragility by Craft: Escaping Iatrogenics in Engineering
We live in a culture obsessed with optimisation. Every defect must be resolved. Every shortcoming gets a hotfix. Entire teams exist to support the act of fixing. But what if the very act of relentless correction is part of the problem?
System Thinking Starts at Home: How Real-Life Engineering Builds Better Engineers
System thinking is often misunderstood as a high-level discipline reserved for enterprise architects, strategists, or researchers. But in reality, it is woven into the fabric of daily life.
The Empire of Fragility
Every civilisation that loses the ability, or the will, to maintain its own foundations begins to rot from within. Knowledge becomes doctrine. Craft becomes compliance. The capacity to build fades first in the hands, then in the mind.
The Ruthless Landscape: Antifragility Beyond Empathy
In business, we love the vocabulary of strength. We talk about resilience, toughness, grit, and, thanks to Nassim Nicholas Taleb, antifragility.
Civic Virtue in Tech Culture: Why Responsibility Is More Revolutionary Than Disruption
In the modern tech world, disruption is the idol. But as we glorify speed and chaos, we rarely pause to ask what we have lost in the process. A world of fragility, marked by rushed decisions, shallow fixes, and performative output, has drifted us into lowering the bar to an unacceptable level.
