Articles
Short, occasional pieces on where to concentrate drive, how to use the leverage you already have, and what to stop doing.
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Breaking the Sound Barrier: Why the Shaking Comes Right Before the Breakthrough
Early pilots thought the sound barrier was a wall. It was the rough stretch right before smooth flight. Why resistance rises just after you commit to one direction, and why most capable people throttle back at 0.9.
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The Thumb on the Garden Hose: Same Energy, Ten Times the Reach
Same water, same tap, fewer places to go: how a garden hose explains leverage, why every side project is a leak, and why more pressure does not help. The physics of focus, without adding a single hour.
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One Kick, Ten Thousand Times: What Bruce Lee Knew About Focus
Bruce Lee feared the man who practiced one kick 10,000 times. Two boys in a karate class, the collector and the weapon, and why entrepreneurs and executives keep collecting kicks instead of drilling the one that lands.
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The Magnifying Glass: Why Your Drive Warms Everything and Burns Nothing
A child with a magnifying glass runs a perfect experiment in focus: same sun, one spot, held still, long enough. Why more effort makes a bigger warm patch and no fire, and the four conditions that change that.
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The Event Horizon: How Concentrated Attention Creates Its Own Gravity
Same mass, one point, a region nothing escapes. Why concentrated attention makes you notice more, lets others know what to bring you and stops good opportunities slipping away, plus where to draw the boundary.
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The Nine Areas of Life: Why a Business Question Rarely Starts in the Business
Why nine areas of life come before any business question: what each area means for entrepreneurs and executives, how to rate honestly, how to read the shape.
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Why a Single Number Is Rarely Enough: BMI, QWI and Where All of This Came From
BMI compresses a whole body into one figure and throws away what you need to act on. We run our lives the same way: revenue, salary, title. How hitting my own number at SAP and finding nothing behind it led to the nine-area Quiet Weight…
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The Prism in Reverse: Brilliance Is Condensed, Not Expanded
A prism spreads white light into a rainbow. Newton showed a lens can bring it back into one beam. Why complexity looks brilliant but dims everything, and how one clear outcome works as the lens.
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The Munroe Effect: Why Scattered Effort Leaves the Wall Standing
In 1888 Charles Munroe noticed that a hollow in a charge made it cut deeper. Why big launches create noise and smoke while the barrier stays intact, and how to shape your effort so it gets through.
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The Waterjet: How Ordinary Water Cuts Through Granite
A wide river is gentle. The same water forced through a nozzle thinner than a pencil line cuts stone and titanium. Why ordinary resources become decisive when they leave through one narrow point, and why the pressure you feel is the mechanism.
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The Laser and the Lightbulb: Why Alignment Beats More Energy
A lightbulb lights a room, a laser cuts steel, and the difference is not the energy that goes in. Why capable entrepreneurs and executives rarely lack drive, and what one colour, one rhythm and one direction look like in practice.
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