Ideas
Essays are where I explore an idea. These are the ideas that survived long enough to become tools. Most are proposed models, still being tested, and each page says so.
Human Systems
Attachment in MotionIn progress
Umbrella model for understanding attachment, regulation, identity, borrowed safety, and what happens under pressure.
Borrowed SafetyIn progress
How people use relationships, achievement, certainty, institutions, substances, roles, and other external sources to regulate internal states.
The ReachIn progress
The motion toward something outside ourselves when the system needs stability.
The Regulatory Access GapIn progress
Why interventions that work for one person may remain functionally inaccessible to another even when both understand what they are supposed to do.
ContainmentIn progress
How systems can successfully reduce instability while leaving the condition generating it largely intact.
Fastest Stability PrincipleIn progress
The tendency of systems under pressure to reuse the fastest available route to perceived stability at the lowest perceived cost.
Self-Sourced AttachmentIn progress
Definition in progress.
Containment LoopIn progress
Definition in progress.
Dyadic CollapseIn progress
Definition in progress.
Identity PatternsIn progress
Definition in progress.
Systems Thinking
Concepts that apply more broadly across institutions, organizations, belief systems, and other complex systems.
Organizational Systems
How I think about execution and organizations. The applied side is on the Technology page.
How work gets in, where the waterline sits, how decisions get made, and why hope is not an operating model. The thinking is on the Technology page.