Richard Merrick

In my last post, I considered that we need to make haste slowly. To stand back a little and go back to first principles. What is really going on here? What can we learn from what has happened before? Are we really where we think we are, or are we

The times are urgent. We must slow down. Bayo Akomolafe If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. African Proverb We seem to be suffering from an epidemic of urgency. Everything around us is geared, even unconsciously, to speed. Exploration plays second

Boundaries are not limits. They are guides, not masters. Crossing them is a choice. Staying inside the boundaries offers an illusion of safety. Painting our careers and lives inside lines drawn by others, guided by the hand of self-interest. Inside the boundaries, we are known, and it's very

Over the past few weeks, I've been exploring what it means to work differently when the structures that once defined us are showing their age. I've written about lunatics and precursors, about cracks appearing in old certainties, about the scarcest luxury being attention itself. I'

A precursor sits in the quiet before the event; a signal, not yet a story. It carries the essence of what’s to come but hasn’t yet unfolded. In nature, precursors are the faint ripples before a storm, the trace minerals before crystal formation, the tension before release. We

We are approaching the end of October, and the intention is to get The Athanor lit and working as a small group in November. This post is an indication of what's on my mind as to how this will work and what is expected of those of us