This week, I travelled to Barcelona for a conference. We are a global community of kindred folks who practise human systems dynamics (HSD). (For those who have not heard of HSD, it is a way of making sense of messy and unpredictable situations. It looks at how people interact - with
For a long time, I was using the free version of Claude. It was good enough for my needs. But one day, one client’s work involved some data crunching, my tokens kept running out and I kept getting timed out mid-process. So I got a paid plan (finally!
Yesterday, I spent the morning with the leadership team of an organisation. To help them make better sense of their world, I introduced a model and got them into smaller breakout groups to apply it and experiment with it. One group seemed stuck, and for a long time, they wrote
I got my health screening report yesterday. Overall not too bad, but some indicators are trending in the wrong direction. I noticed my focus shift instinctively to the negative things - visceral fat and “bad” cholesterol (LDL). I thought a lot about them. In fact, I’ve been thinking a lot
One week has passed since my last post on the US military intervention in Venezuela. The world remains a pretty turbulent and uncertain place. Apart from the originating event, I have also paid attention to how leaders have responded - world leaders and also leaders in my own country. My interest
On January 3rd, the US bombed Venezuela and captured its sitting president. I've delayed writing about this, because I needed time to process my own emotions and experiences - from the immediate ones to the ones following. Safe to say, it’s a whole mixed bag. But I want
This year, I will turn 48. My Chinese zodiac is the horse, and 2026 is the year of the horse. That means, I will have completed four zodiac cycles and I will go into my fifth cycle. Hence, for me 2026 is not just a new year but also the
In 2025, I read more books than in 2024. Here are a few that I enjoyed most or learned most from. Here is my one-line takeaway, thought or reflection of each of those books. 1. “How Emotions are Made” by Lisa Feldman Barrett - My brain constructs the emotions I
The packaging had said, “Child Resistant” along with a scissors sign. But I managed to detach the plastic casing from the cardboard. Oh? So easy? And I chuckled, how is this "child resistant"…? 😆 So I popped the battery out of the plastic casing. Cannot. I turned it upside
Last week, I wrote my first blog post on the Megan Khung case, and I shared it on Facebook. A friend responded that he had expected a longer commentary and he was looking forward to a more critical dissection of the issues at hand. He sounded disappointed. Yes, I did
I started a blog recently. I had planned to write an introductory post sharing why I am writing again and what/how I would like to write. I did not expect my first post to be on such a heavy topic. But I was struck deeply by the news on