The Writing
Two newsletters, one question: who are we to each other?
My writing started as a personal project and grew into something bigger. Both publications live on Substack - come and subscribe.
Newsletter
Explores loneliness, belonging and the quiet work of being a good human. Personal stories, research, and practical tools.
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Leadership, governance and AI for people who answer to a board. A character essay every second Tuesday, the Wrap every second Friday, and the Board Room Toolkit: practical guides on board papers, governance and AI for founders, CEOs, principals, business managers and directors.
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From Worth Following
The Board Kit
Templates, worked examples and AI prompts for the people who write board papers and the directors who read them. Seven templates (board paper, CEO report, written board update, board deck, investor update, pre-board call script and actions register), every one filled in for a fictional company at one board meeting so you can see what good looks like, a Cowork skill and the prompts that draft each document from your own notes, and a guide that walks you through it. For directors, one prompt turns a board pack into a five-section report before you vote. It is A$79 once, or included with a Worth Following subscription.
Where it began
The essay that started it all.
"I'm 54 years old, and recently I realised I've been lonely my whole life. Somewhere along the line, I didn't make any friends."
Written in January 2021, this short essay became the seed of Alone Rangers - and the name stuck: I'd relied on being the alone ranger all my life, figuring out life's challenges independently.
The ten qualities
Ten qualities, twice over: the leader, then the human.
In late 2024 I wrote a LinkedIn series on the ten qualities I believe are crucial for a good leader. Then I took those same ideas out of the boardroom and asked what they mean for who we are with our loved ones, friends and communities.
The professional version
Ten Qualities of a Good Leader
Honesty, adaptability, confidence, strategic vision, listening, showing up consistently - the qualities that decide whether people follow you.
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The human version
Ten Qualities of a Good Human
The same qualities, translated: dimensions of character to cultivate over a lifetime, as a partner, parent, friend and neighbour.
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Selected essays
Start with these.
Lessons From the Loneliest Times in My Life
"Not just occasionally isolated or going through a rough patch, but genuinely, consistently lonely for five decades."
What five decades of loneliness taught me about connection, vulnerability, and becoming fully human.
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Ghosting, Fading, and the Unfinished Endings of Modern Friendship
"The friendship hasn't ended with a conversation or an argument. It's just... evaporated."
On unanswered texts, and how gracefully we let connections transform.
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The Cost of Not Knowing Where You're From
"On Christmas Eve 1975, our mother walked three of us kids onto a Qantas jumbo at Heathrow, bound for Darwin."
Seven schools, two continents, and a question that still doesn't have a tidy answer at 59.
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The Loneliness of the Bullied - and Bully
"I've been bullied at school on two continents."
Loneliness affects all sides of the equation.
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We Rise by Lifting Others
"Lifting others is one of those rare strategies that benefits everyone involved."
From the "ten qualities of a good human" series - dimensions of character to cultivate over a lifetime.
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And plenty more
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Why I write
Personal experience is the source material.
A childhood spent across seven schools in England and Australia left me with a lifelong interest in belonging and what it costs to keep starting again. After decades building companies, I now write in a direct, first-person voice about connection, masculinity, ageing and what makes a leader worth following.