Articles
Writing on network risk.
Everything in one place — short, practical pieces on seeing risk as a connected system.
The network view
The Forecast and the Terrain
A forecast tells you how much rain is coming. It cannot tell you which valleys flood. Risk has the same two questions — and most organisations answer only one.
Direction of impact
Run the Risk Map Backwards
Impact is not a score on a row. It is directional — and the question that matters is not what you would break, but what could break you.
The limits of quantification
What a Precise Number Hides
A number can be exact and still mislead. Precision tells you how big a risk is; it cannot tell you where it sits.
Chronic risk
Reading the Shape of Risk
Chronic risks are long-term, interconnected pressures — and what matters most about them is structural. You read it in the shape of the system, not the list.
Risk visualisation
The Lines That Go Nowhere
Beyond heat maps: the real failure of a risk picture is not that it is ugly, but that it shows you a connection and stays silent about what it means.
Antifragility
Antifragility in Practice
Putting antifragility to work — where redundancy, optionality and slack actually pay off.