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Field notes on strategy, transformation, and how modern organisations build lasting capability — from the Simulen team.

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Data 3 min read

From punch cards to tell-n-code

From punch cards to BASIC to a small army of coding agents: every step made the human-machine interface a little kinder. The latest jump is astonishing — but it is evolution, not revolution, and it still needs an engineer behind it.

New
Data 6 min read

More is different: my useless PhD just became relevant

Twenty years after a doctorate in complex-systems modelling stopped being good dinner-party conversation, the word at its heart — emergence — has become the word of the decade in AI.

Leadership 2 min read

The mortal sin

Dotted reporting lines should not exist. Ever.

People 3 min read

The People manifesto

A manifesto for graceful workplaces that put people before structures and processes.

Delivery 6 min read

The Planning Fallacy

Why deterministic planning fails in uncertain systems, and how practitioners can plan with humility.

Strategy 11 min read

The Lost Art of Business Symbiosis

How interconnected business ecosystems make collaborative value creation more powerful than local optimisation.

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