Thinking, points of view and recognition
Clear thinking on strategy, markets and building.
Where I write about the gaps I see, the method I use and the direction technology should take.
As Chief Executive Officer of Sharktech Global, I am committed to building technology that helps people do more, build better and live better.
I will not sign off on technology that removes human value in the name of progress.
01 · The writing
Four threads I keep pulling.
The future of work·10 pieces
Rebuilding the Soul of Australia.
An ongoing series on sovereign wealth, public investment and what AI does to Australian work.
- October 2026·5 min read The AI Era Is Here. Australia Needs a Path to Shared Prosperity
- September 2026·5 min read Australia’s AI Future Must Be Worth Building
- September 2026·2 min read AI, jobs and the value of human work
- August 2026·12 min read Australia's AI Future: Most Jobs Will Change. The Question Is Whether We Change With Them
- June 2026·7 min read Governance Is What Makes a Sovereign Wealth Fund Last
- June 2026·7 min read Preparing Australians for the AI Transition: What a National Fund Can and Cannot Do
- June 2026·7 min read Turning Australia's Mineral Wealth Into National Wealth
- June 2026·7 min read Australia Already Has a Sovereign Wealth Fund. It Needs a Clearer Job
- June 2026·7 min read What Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund Teaches Australia About Resource Wealth
- May 2026·14 min read The last shift is not a metaphor. It is happening right now
Industry and manufacturing·8 pieces
Economic transformation.
Turning resources and industrial capability into something that actually gets built and governed.
- August 2026·7 min read From Feasibility to Investment-Ready: How Safety Intelligence De-Risks Major Projects in the NT and WA
- August 2026·6 min read Industrial Safety Intelligence: The Missing Layer in the Northern Territory Resources Boom
- August 2026·6 min read A Skilled Safety Workforce for the North: Technology as a Force Multiplier
- August 2026·6 min read Sovereign Safety Capability: Building Industrial Resilience From Northern Australia
- August 2026·6 min read Western Australia Does Not Need More Safety Paperwork. It Needs a Safety Operating System
- July 2026·5 min read Design for Manufacture and Assembly, Explained
- July 2026·5 min read The Make or Buy Decision Manufacturing Gets Late
- 27 April 2026·35 min read Why the Northern Territory Should Become Australia's Semiconductor Materials Hub
People I have studied·12 pieces
Leadership.
What builders and operators taught me about discipline, risk and starting again.
- October 2026·5 min read How I Build Technology Businesses for Scale
- September 2026·2 min read The kind of strategist public leaders need now
- September 2026·2 min read Trust is earned through delivery
- September 2026·2 min read Why complex problems need a whole-system strategy
- June 2026·15 min read Wang Chuanfu taught me that the whole chain is the advantage
- May 2026·15 min read Sridhar Vembu taught me that the loudest room is almost never the right room
- May 2026·10 min read The biggest risk you will ever take is the one where you decide to do absolutely nothing
- April 2026·15 min read Mark Zuckerberg showed me that failure does not wait for permission. Not even at a trillion dollars
- March 2026·14 min read Jordan Peterson asked me the one question I had been avoiding for years
- March 2026·13 min read Sheikh Mohammed taught me that the largest ambitions demand the deepest discipline
- February 2026·13 min read Ajay Banga showed me that starting over is not a setback. It is the strategy
- February 2026·14 min read Naval Ravikant gave me the daring to start again
Systems and infrastructure·5 pieces
Technologies.
Where technology should be pointed, and the gaps it has been ignoring.
- October 2026·5 min read Leading AI Adoption with Clear Accountability
- September 2026·2 min read Technology should give ordinary people more power to act
- September 2026·5 min read Building AI Businesses Around Customer Value
- April 2026·6 min read The accountant working until 9pm is not a productivity problem. It is a technology problem
- April 2026·12 min read The Answer to Australia's Energy Crisis Is Not Where You Think
02 · Track record
From fibre to Chief Executive Officer.
Profile · Track record
The record behind the thinking.
Aeronautical research and development, NBN and Telstra fibre construction, Telstra critical infrastructure across more than 2,200 sites, and leadership of Sharktech Global as Chief Executive Officer.
See the track record