I Just Wanted an Axe. Now I Know the Metallurgical History of Scandinavia

I just needed an axe. I ended up deep in Scandinavian metallurgy, bought three, and questioned my entire identity. This is a field report from the spiral — part review, part existential breakdown, part buyer’s guide.

Legacy Systems and Burnt Edges (The Cost of Sticking With What You Know)

Burnt toast is a warning. Legacy systems leak belief, stall teams, and train people to expect failure. Here’s how to name it, and what comes next.

The Toast Audit (A Diagnostic Tool Disguised as Breakfast)

Most projects collapse from quiet misalignment. The Toast Audit is one question that makes invisible chaos visible, before the bread burns.

How to Build a Shared Model (Without a Workshop or a Breakdown)

Most teams break because no one says what they think is happening. This is how to draw it — and why it matters more than another strategy doc.

The Toast Archetypes (And Why Your Project Fell Apart at the Bread Stage)

Projects fail at the bread stage. Here's a stickman field guide to eight people who turn toast into chaos — and how to stop becoming one of them

Why Alignment Is a Lie (And How It Quietly Breaks Your Team)

Alignment sounds helpful. It’s not. It’s vague, cosmetic, and usually a lie. This is how we use it to avoid hard conversations and why it breaks the work

How to Make Toast (And Why Most Projects Break Before Lunch)

You say toast. They hear air fryer. This is how quiet misalignment ruins good plans — and why drawing toast might save your next project.

Toby's Story

Our son was diagnosed with meningitis one day after he was born. This is what came after, not as a tragedy, but as a life rebuilt from the ground up.

You Are Not the User. You Are the Training Data

You’re not using the internet. You’re feeding it. A breakdown of how AI was trained on your life, your words, your voice, your memories and now mimics you better than you do. This isn’t a tool. It’s a mirror made from ghosts.

What If We’re the Amnesia?

A long, weird, maybe-true post about forgotten civilisations, rising oceans, and the creeping suspicion that we’re not the peak of human progress — just the rerun.

I Tried Living Like It Was 1994 for a Week (And Accidentally Fixed My Brain)

What happens when you unplug everything and live like it’s 1994? No apps. No notifications. Just CDs, toast, and a lot of weird mental clarity.

We Were Once Wilderness Men

A short story about confidence, YouTube-induced delusion, tactical poo shovels, and why failure with your son is sometimes the best kind of win.