On the Whiteboard, at Year’s End

2025 is drawing to a close. Holiday best wishes have been sent, the art studio tidied, the decks cleared — all but one tiny handwritten Post-it note on my whiteboard. It reads, “A vision in motion is the greatest adventure.” The note had appeared sometime over the summer, after I’d put the blog writing on pause. Why is it still here? 2025 had started with a happy momentum. Ways of drawing had begun to work for me — especially a larger format to surface connections and comp

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On the Whiteboard, at Year’s End

2025 is drawing to a close. Holiday best wishes have been sent, the art studio tidied, the decks cleared — all but one tiny handwritten Post-it note on my whiteboard. It reads, “A vision in motion is the greatest adventure.” The note had appeared sometime over the summer, after I’d put the blog writing on pause. Why is it still here? 2025 had started with a happy momentum. Ways of drawing had begun to work for me — especially a larger format to surface connections and comp

Dec 313 min read

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Life's Messy, Listen Wisely

ABOUT ME

In 1985, my thesis took me from the tidy academic world of MIT to the muddy valley of Armero, Colombia. This contrast between academy and mud would set the pattern for my future. For the next 20 years, I worked as a project specialist, policy advisor and manager in Latin America and the Caribbean. Finding solutions to often messy challenges.Ten years ago, I stepped away from this work (...)