observations and Insights

The Blog - Observations, Insights, Odds & Ends

Please find to follow an accumulation of thoughts, observations and insights that broadly accompany my work in and around businesses operating unders constraint and my interest in particular in the world of investments and communicating investment concepts usefully. Some will actively acompany Unlimited and my work on the Advantage framework, others will be more diverse. If they resonate, or prompt questions please connect with me on LinkedIn - I'd love to hear your thoughts.  

Much of what's written has or will appear as peridic posts on LinkedIn - but some ideas need more room than a post there allows or arrive in the kind of flurry that son't be appreciated over there! Some are part of series that don't make sense in islation until the series is complete, and some are simply useful obersvations to have online to be able to point people at.

Welcome to the new website!

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I will be uploading various resources over the next few months to support the launch of Unlimited from May 2026, which may mean the shorter form insights are on hiatus before beginning again on the new site, or it may inspire more posts than ever - we'll have to see! Connect with me on LinkedIn for previews and updates.
Latest Posts

Knowledge is power

One of the things a constrained environment does — quietly, and often without you noticing — is make itself feel like the primary problem.

A matter of the very deepest moment

In A Scandal In Bohemia, Holmes illustrates the wisdom of not getting ahead of the data and the importance of priorotising the information that allows you to take the right actions.

Being Epicurious

How did a restrained ancient Greek genius become a byword for excess?

The dog that now famously didn't bark

Spoiler Alert. If you haven't read Silver Blaze — the short story that includes the curious incident of the dog in the night — the point is that the dog doesn't actually bark. So What?

Compliance is an outcome

Compliance is an outcome - what's controversial about that?

A preposterous way of settling a dispute

Can we do better as businesses than relying on good judgement?

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Series

sometimes one post just isn't enough! Below are some posts designed to work together towards a particular end, or those that focus on expanding a particular topic beyond what i can realistically expect anyone to want to read in a single post!

click on the series to read an expanded description of what each series is designed to acheive and to see the posts curated in the order they might most easilly be consumed.

If any of the observations or insights here struck a chord please message or connect with me on LinkedIn