
Navigating Complexity: Design, Technology & Systems Thinking

An evolving record of principles, methods and approaches that resonate with me and how I work.
All of my long-form thoughts collected in chronological order and soon to be organised.
An evolving record of principles, methods and approaches that resonate with me and how I work.
We use language of machinery to talk about ourselves and cast ourselves in the image of the machine, entranced by our own reflections of efficiency and logic and mechanistic predictability.
Technology shapes not just how we act but who we are. If we look at our narratives around technology, we might find them rooted in control and efficiency. Can we advocate instead for pluralistic and relational approaches to progress? Let's explore alternatives to extractive systems through examples.
I built this website using NextJS (with TypeScript and TailwindCSS) for the front-end, a self-hosted Strapi CMS with Postgres for content management and Docker for containerization and deployment on an Ubuntu VPS.