Thomas Blood
Strategy, sustainability, and organisational change.
Strategy & AI — How specification, character, and judgment hold up as the load-bearing skills in an age of autonomous agents.
Sustainability — Nature-based solutions, circular economy, and the practical work of environmental transformation.
Organisational Change — What it takes to move large systems from where they are to where they need to be.
Recent Writing
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The Gymnasium Effect
The Greeks built philosophy schools next to wrestling grounds because thinking requires resistance. AI changes the technology of partnership, not the politics.
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The Colonized Concept
Every English translation of Patañjali gets it wrong — not because the translators are careless, but because the conceptual architecture of English cannot receive what the Sanskrit is transmitting.
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The Ledger
Nature has never appeared on a balance sheet. A veterinary drug costing pennies destroyed an ecosystem service worth billions. The question is whether nature arrives on the ledger by design or by disaster.
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Joiler Veppers Has a Rocket Company
Silicon Valley reads Iain M. Banks and sees a blueprint. Banks wrote a villain who did the same thing.
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No Backup Planet — Resiliency for Nature
We have built extraordinary disciplines for ensuring digital infrastructure can survive failure. We have learned this lesson only for the systems we built ourselves. The planet has no failover, no snapshots, and no rollback.