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Rohan Light

Rohan Light

I help the good build the worthwhile. Doing #progressive, thinking #resilience, learning #DataOps, reading #history, governing #data, loving #physics

My Pi-spective on Choice

My Pi-spective on Choice

(A pi-spective is when you talk about something with only 314 words) Choice. Something we want, in principle. Something we avoid more often than we'd like to admit. And we avoid more choice than we're aware. We lack choice in the areas that we think we

My Pi-spective on Risk

My Pi-spective on Risk

(A pi-spective is when you talk about something with only 314 words) Risk is about the chance and cost of being wrong. Our brains don't like risk. We come up with all sorts of foolishness to avoid thinking about it. People have made careers profiting from our fear

We Are the Guardians of Our Own Standards

We Are the Guardians of Our Own Standards

The focus of this series of posts is to better describe who a manager (which I show here as [.]) is and does. Part of my motive is to get away from the leader vs manager topic which I believe is a false dichotomy. The trouble is finding a word to

My Pi-spective on Consulting

My Pi-spective on Consulting

(A pi-spective is when you use 314 words to describe something) Consulting confuses me. The word doesn't seem to match observed behaviour. A consultant is a person who provides advice. A consultee is a person who is asked for advice. Consulting is the business of providing advice. To

Productivity and Planet X

Productivity and Planet X

Productivity. An omnipresent word and modern obsession. I was at first enthusiastic about becoming 'more productive'. Then my brain caught up to my mouth. Productivity is a vague and diffuse word. Like many a piece of modern business jargon it has taken on a life of its own.

My Pi-spective on Planning

My Pi-spective on Planning

(A pi-spective is when you talk about something with only 314 words) Planning can be good. Planning can be bad. Good plans can take us nowhere. Bad plans can take us anywhere. No plan survives contact with the enemy. Paraphrased and attributed to Helmuth von Moltke. What he said was

We're All In The Public Service

We're All In The Public Service

Good ethics is all a business has. A business cannot exist in isolation from the society that sustains it. Providing sustenance is a choice. The capacity to choose isn't static. Choices change. A business grown comfortable in the expectation that society needs it is a foolish business. Such