Why Failure Always Looks Sudden Every organisational collapse is described the same way. “No one saw it coming.”“It happened so fast.”“Everything was fine until it wasn’t.” That story is comforting. It suggests bad luck.A freak event.An unforeseeable shock. It is almost always a lie. Collapse does not come from nowhere.It arrives when reality finally demands…
Stress
Bullshit Endurance
How Organisations Learn to Live With Dysfunction Organisations rarely fail when the first things go wrong. They fail much later, after they’ve learned how to live with things being wrong. That is the part most people misunderstand. Collapse doesn’t come from fragility alone. It comes from endurance. From the ability to tolerate dysfunction, absorb damage,…
The Bullshit Premium
Why Talking Well Now Pays Better Than Doing Well There was a time when competence was the currency. You learned how things worked.Understood failure modes.Earned trust because, when things went wrong, you were the person people turned to, not because you sounded confident, or could verbally spew the lastest corporate jargon but because you could…
When Talking the Job Became More Valuable Than Doing It?
There was a time when competence was obvious. Now, talking the job has become almost as important as doing it. You could see it in how someone approached a problem. In how little noise they made. In how few excuses they needed. The job was completed safely and properly, often without anyone outside the team…
The Hidden Algorithm That’s Quietly Rewiring Your Mind (and What It’s Doing to Your Life Without You Noticing)
There’s a moment you probably recognise.It’s 2:07 a.m. You promised yourself one last scroll. Five, ten, thirty minutes later, you’re still there, thumb flicking, jaw slack, a vague sense of emptiness settling in. You close the app. It opens again almost by itself. You don’t remember choosing that. You just did it. This isn’t a…
Leadership and the True Cost of Workforce Cuts
Workforce cuts are often framed as a necessary, rational response to economic pressure. Leaders justify redundancies using language like efficiency, streamlining, and shareholder value. On spreadsheets, the logic appears sound: fewer people, lower costs, improved margins. But leadership is not exercised on spreadsheets alone. It is exercised in human systems, teams, cultures, relationships, and trust. …
Has the Web Become “The Destroyer of Worlds”?
Re-Examining Oppenheimer’s Warning in the Age of Algorithms. When J. Robert Oppenheimer watched the first atomic bomb ignite the desert sky in 1945, he famously recalled a line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” It was a moment that marked a turning point in human…
The Truth We Spend a Lifetime Avoiding, And What Happens the Moment We Finally Face It
There’s a moment in every person’s life when the noise quiets, the distractions fade, and the mind, finally unguarded, reveals something we’ve been avoiding for years. It doesn’t arrive dramatically. There’s no lightning bolt or cinematic music. Instead, it comes quietly, stealthily, often in the middle of an ordinary day. A pause in conversation.A second…
Life and Diskarte (Strategy) at home: How Filipinos turn Challenges into Championships
The Art of Living Smart In the Philippines, life isn’t always easy, but it’s always madiskarte (strategic). From the Nanay who turns her front yard into a sari-sari store, to the Tatay who builds furniture out of scrap wood, to the student selling milk tea online after class, every Filipino household has its own brand…
Modern Masculinity: Breaking Free from the Expectations That Are Breaking Men
How to redefine strength, purpose, and identity in a world that’s forgotten what being a man really means. The Quiet Identity Crisis No One Talks About There’s a quiet crisis happening in men’s lives today. Not the loud, dramatic kind that grabs headlines, but a slow erosion of confidence, purpose, and identity. Men are working…