Outside the Walls
Richard MerrickI write about finding opportunity in the spaces where conventional business thinking ends.
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Reflections 7th June
We did everything that was asked of us. We chose a field, trained hard, joined a “good” institution, and spent two decades becoming reliably excellent at a defined thing. By every account of how a career was meant to work, we are a success....
Reflections 31st May
Five miles east of me, eight metres below the surface of a Derby street, runs a brick-arched Victorian sewer that has been carrying the contents of those houses since the 1860s. A small number of engineers can tell you, with reasonable accu...
Reflections 24th May
In The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway has one of his characters asked how he went bankrupt. His answer?: Gradually, then suddenly.
The line has been repeated often enough to have worn a little smooth, and become so familiar it is easy to dismis...
A Discipline of Discretion.
A recent piece in The Economist (17th May 2026) reports that China is sliding into a third internet era, in which AI “super-apps” no longer merely recommend but choose, purchase and arrange delivery on the user’s behalf. More than 600 milli...
Reflections, 17th of May
There’s a crack in everything. It’s where the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen
Where the Puck Are We Going?
Wayne Gretzky’s father, Walter, coached him to move to where the puck was going to be, not where it had been. It was a line famously...
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