Aweh Dear Ruminants and Groupies, There comes a moment in the life of the corporate mammal when the institution looks at you with the warm affection of a procurement department reviewing an obsolete supplier contract and says, in its own delicate way: “Thank you for your service. Now kindly remove your carcass from the orgContinue reading “Ruminations on Brand-Building and Becoming a Complete Narcissist”
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Ruminations: You Can’t Compress a Country into a Climate Solution
Aweh, Dear Ruminants and Groupies, The Cheesecake Problem At a recent dinner, somewhere between the third glass of wine and a heroic attempt at a shared dessert, someone confidently announced that they had “cut out sugar.” This was delivered while absent-mindedly working through what can only be described as a medium-sized cheesecake. When this smallContinue reading “Ruminations: You Can’t Compress a Country into a Climate Solution”
Rumination on being normative and Donald Trump
Aweh Ruminants and Groupies Back in the 1980s and early 1990s, when Cheers set the benchmark for the half-hour sitcom, storytelling moved at a different pace. A slower, character-driven world unfolded in a Boston bar, one that now feels almost alien in an age of TikTok clips and algorithm-fed distraction. In that world, Norm PetersonContinue reading “Rumination on being normative and Donald Trump”
Rumination on why dissent dies (A case study in very expensive hydrogen)
Aweh Ruminants and Groupies Disclaimer: The following account is entirely fictional and bears absolutely no resemblance to any real projects, organisations, industries, investment committees, strategy decks, hydrogen ambitions, or deeply optimistic spreadsheets, past or present. Any similarity to actual events is purely coincidental, unfortunate, and almost certainly the reader’s imagination doing far more work thanContinue reading “Rumination on why dissent dies (A case study in very expensive hydrogen)”
A tribute to my younger son, Connor, upon his graduation
Aweh Ruminants and Groupies On Wednesday, Connor graduated with a computer science degree from Wits University. He represents the fourth generation of Wits graduates in our family, two great-grandfathers, one grandfather, both his parents, and now him. Many of our family and friends are scattered around the world, but Johannesburg, Wits University, and St StithiansContinue reading “A tribute to my younger son, Connor, upon his graduation”
Ruminations on dissent
Aweh, fellow ruminants and groupies The Nature of Dissent Dissent is what happens when someone in the meeting clears their throat and says the thing everyone else is carefully pretending not to think. It’s the awkward moment when the tidy PowerPoint narrative meets reality, and someone politely points out that the emperor’s strategic roadmap may,Continue reading “Ruminations on dissent”
A tribute to my brother
Dear beloved ruminants and groupies Today, my brother turns 60. Last Friday, we celebrated at Cape Point Vineyards Estate, overlooking Noordhoek, a place of such breathtaking beauty that even people from Johannesburg are briefly rendered humble. The guest list included many of his Cape Town friends, a group widely known for their refinement, aesthetic restraint,Continue reading “A tribute to my brother”
Ruminations on the topics we are not supposed to touch and dialectic debate
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies On Pompous Words and Pipes I have quite rightly been accused of using pompous vocabulary that requires a footnote, and “dialectic” probably belongs squarely in that dock. It sounds like something you’d mutter over a pipe in a wood-panelled study while adjusting your tweed jacket. A dialecticContinue reading “Ruminations on the topics we are not supposed to touch and dialectic debate”
Ruminations on brown nosing
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies We’ve all got our personal superpowers… and then there are the things we fumble through like a goat on roller skates, plenty of room for ‘extraordinary growth,’ in the words of a nauseatingly insincere HR professional. One of my many extraordinary growth areas is brown-nosing. Brown-nosing isContinue reading “Ruminations on brown nosing”
Ruminations on hatred
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies A Quick Heads-Up If you’re new here, hi: I’m usually more chaos and curiosity than crisis and collapse. But today’s post? It’s heavier. It’s personal. And it’s been building for a long time.” Usually, this blog is a space for playful thinking and unexpected tangents. Today? We’reContinue reading “Ruminations on hatred”
Ruminant Pink Friday 