Resilience is Relational: What Ecology Teaches Us About Sustainable Leadership
The longer I’ve spent studying behaviour and leadership, the more I’ve come to see that teams, organizations, even friendships operate like ecologies.
Human at Work: Unlocking Potential by Understanding How We "Human" – A Guide to Thriving and Leading with Empathy
The modern workplace often feels like a puzzle with missing pieces. We talk about productivity, innovation, and culture, but sometimes we forget the fundamental ingredient: humanity.
The Bridges We Build: An Architecture of Resilience at Work
When a project stalls, communication breaks down, or you feel the structure of your team start to wobble, the impulse is to reinforce, to tighten, to make it rigid again.
The Algorithm of Flow: Unlocking Productivity Through Hyper-Structure
For years, (okay, decades), I tried to follow countless systems presented by others.
Scratching - the Scar Skin
You work the day shift. You work the night shift. You don’t sleep. You sleep too much. You eat. You don’t. It doesn’t matter. You keep scratching for life, hoping like hell the light returns.
You Will Break: Why Real Resilience Isn't About Endurance
When people said I was resilient, I thought they meant I was good at surviving—at staying upright while the world shook beneath me. I wore that word like armour.
The Blueprint for Scale: Kit-of-Parts and Collaborative Networks
The KOP model, especially in a hybrid application, requires a major supply chain shift—the very solution needed for mass-market affordability of any product.
Healing as Expansion: The Ability to Hold Both Gratitude and Grief
These experiences happen to everyone. To survive, you must learn to live inside that ache without making it an enemy.
The Anatomy of Resilience
Resilience isn’t built in the moments that look like triumph.
Neurodiversity at Work: Real Lessons from the Inside
Hi, I’m Tapanga, and I’m autistic.
Scale, But Smart: Why National Housing Solutions Must Be Regional
In my last post, I argued we need to build homes like cookies—in batches, not one at a time. The shift to efficiency is non-negotiable for solving the affordability crisis.
Why Homes Should Be Built Like Cookies: A Batch at a Time
🍪 Nobody bakes just one cookie.
The Effort Performer: Tactical Kindness and the Cost of Fake Accountability
You know the type.
They look busy, sound inspiring, and leave a trail of good intentions behind them—but the real work? That’s still sitting in someone else’s inbox.
Sometimes, what looks like effort is just damage control disguised as intimacy, apology, or team spirit.
Why Our Building System Fails Local Income: The True Cost of Buying a Home
In finance, "affordable" housing means spending no more than 30% of your gross household income on housing costs. Anything above that, and a household is in "housing stress."
I said I am not your flower
A defiant bloom from the cracks—this one’s for the wild things that won’t stay buried.
Leadership: Frameworks Over Titles
It was the kind of initiative that could have unlocked new opportunities and reshaped how the organization operated. There was genuine excitement surrounding it—yet in the end, something essential remained just out of reach.
Lead Like a Unicorn (Even if You Feel Like a Donkey Sometimes)
In organizations, we often talk about leaders as visionaries. The ones who “think big,” “see around corners,” “transform industries.” We celebrate the mythical leaders who change the game, set bold visions, and inspire us to do more than we thought possible.
That’s the unicorn. Rare, inspiring, untamed.
Let’s Talk About Empathy & Exhaustion
Compassion fatigue isn’t selfishness.
It’s what happens when your nervous system has been asked to absorb, manage, translate, and tolerate far past human limits.
Stop Babysitting: Why Your Invisible Labor Isn't Leadership
You started out convinced you were leading a team, steering strategy, and driving toward a great vision. But somewhere along the line, your focus shifted.
The Miles Our Voices Must Cross
A call.
Miles away, another answers. The air bends, the earth hums. Invisible threads weaving herd to herd across a distance no eye can cover.
