Organizational designer, writer, and founder of Deliberate Works. Writing about building better organizations and living a more deliberate life.
After unexpectedly losing the job I moved across the country for In 2015, I published an article called “Creating an Organizational Design Consulting Firm for the 21st Century.” It was an attempt to publicly articulate the kind of work I wanted to be doing - working at a consulting firm that treated organizational design as a living discipline rather than a one-time intervention. That article did…
And yet again, here we are. I’m a sucker for investing arbitrary windows of time with extra meaning, so it’s time once again to look at the past 12 months and try to make some sense of what went down. Actually, scratch that. That puts too much pressure on the exercise. Instead, this is simply about trying to capture in a semi-coherent way, how some of my time and attention was spent in 2025. No…
This article turned into more of an overall audit of the physical things in my life rather than a specific look at what changed in 2024. It’ll be good to use as a touchstone in future years, I think. All links are non-referral and simply there for your convenience.
Reading is my primary mode of entertainment, and there’s a whole separate article for that. This is the article where I combine all other forms of entertainment and look back at what I consumed in the past year.
If I had to give my 2024 triathlon training efforts a grade, it’d be a solid B-. I cycled and swam significantly less than I did in 2023 and 2022, but I managed to run and walk more. My training consistency took a bit of a hit with the upheaval of moving from Virginia to New York, but never completely fell off the rails. I learned how important it is to have Default Run and Default Cycling…
I care about the software I use. It should be fast. It should be well-designed. It should have a clear business model (as a predictor of longevity). If all of these things can be accomplished while also being developed by the first party (i.e. Apple), that’s even better.
I love reading.
[caption id=”” align=”alignnone” width=”1024”] Image by Midjourney [/caption]
Plans are made to be broken and goals are simply a snapshot in time. Both have a misleading way of giving a sense of clarity and certainty that rarely lasts long. I am no friend of predicting-and-planning my way into inevitable disappointment when my best laid January plans inevitably become June pains. I’m supposed to set a goal today that’s going to be relevant and worthwhile and motivating…
[caption id=”” align=”alignnone” width=”9008”] The sun sets on Cape Cod — and another year. [/caption]