Why I Restructured My Website

I launched this site in fall 2023. Since then I’ve written almost 200 articles. That’s more than I expected when I started.

Initially the site was basically a stream: a new post went on top and old posts slided down.

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Topics were whatever I was thinking about that week: personal productivity, a book that stuck with me or a piece about my journey. Some of it formed loose series (e.g. articles referencing each other) but mostly each post stood on its own. You’d land on one, read it and have no real sense of how they fitted into a bigger picture.

That was fine with 20 articles.

At 200, it stopped being fine.

The problem wasn’t the content. It was the numbers. The structure was too loose for that amount of articles.

Ideas were scattered across dozens of posts. A new reader had no way to find the throughline. Honestly, neither did I (most days).

So, I restructured.

The site now has a separate landing page built around three pillar topics.

• Personal Operating Systems: How individuals stay effective when work becomes complex, ambiguous and constrained (without relying on hacks) Read more …
• Leadership as a System: How decisions, communication and responsibility scale through teams and why leadership is less about traits and more about structure Read more …
• Tools in the Real World: How digital systems, IT, and AI actually behave once they meet organizations Read more …

This new structure of my website also changes how I’ll write going forward. New posts will increasingly slot into one of these systems rather than standing alone. This is, if I’m honest, closer to how I was actually thinking the whole time. The blog just hadn’t caught up to that yet.

If you’ve been reading for a while, the content hasn’t changed: it’s just finally organized the way it always should have been.