
Notes of gratitude
Did I ever think that I would end up where I am today when I left school? The very short answer is no. A slightly longer answer requires me to turn back the clock a few years and paint a picture. When I left school I wasn’t entirely sure what I wanted to do or where I wanted to go. There was plenty of indecision and many questions that I couldn’t find the answers to. So, I was encouraged to start a broad undergraduate degree at the University of Cape Town. When I say broad, I truly mean it as...

Wabi Sabi - exploring the beauty of imperfection
Before getting started and unpacking Wabi Sabi, I thought it useful to provide a little bit of context about this writing experiment. Writing helps me refine, questions and improve my thinking. By writing intentionally and consistently, while paying attention to the way that I am using words to shape my ideas. My intention is to use this practice to improve the succinctness with which I communicate ideas, opinions and linkages between different spaces. It’s primarily a practice that I am star...

Capturing the imagination of generations that have gone before us
This is being written in the early morning while I await for my connecting flight from Dubai to South Africa. Currently in transit on my way back from spending some time in Amsterdam and Spain over the last month. Travel shifts one’s perspective — it gets you to listen in different ways, gaining inspiration from sights and sounds. As the plane made its approach into Dubai we were granted a view of the city. As the pilot turned the plane to line up with the runway our reference points on the h...
A deep thinker, synthesiser & learner. I have a fascination for people, sustainability, technology and data. Craft enabler and listener.

Notes of gratitude
Did I ever think that I would end up where I am today when I left school? The very short answer is no. A slightly longer answer requires me to turn back the clock a few years and paint a picture. When I left school I wasn’t entirely sure what I wanted to do or where I wanted to go. There was plenty of indecision and many questions that I couldn’t find the answers to. So, I was encouraged to start a broad undergraduate degree at the University of Cape Town. When I say broad, I truly mean it as...

Wabi Sabi - exploring the beauty of imperfection
Before getting started and unpacking Wabi Sabi, I thought it useful to provide a little bit of context about this writing experiment. Writing helps me refine, questions and improve my thinking. By writing intentionally and consistently, while paying attention to the way that I am using words to shape my ideas. My intention is to use this practice to improve the succinctness with which I communicate ideas, opinions and linkages between different spaces. It’s primarily a practice that I am star...

Capturing the imagination of generations that have gone before us
This is being written in the early morning while I await for my connecting flight from Dubai to South Africa. Currently in transit on my way back from spending some time in Amsterdam and Spain over the last month. Travel shifts one’s perspective — it gets you to listen in different ways, gaining inspiration from sights and sounds. As the plane made its approach into Dubai we were granted a view of the city. As the pilot turned the plane to line up with the runway our reference points on the h...
A deep thinker, synthesiser & learner. I have a fascination for people, sustainability, technology and data. Craft enabler and listener.

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I have a deep curiosity for understanding how things work. The search for answers has led to me engage/refine/improve my intuition through asking questions and listening to the feedback.
In 2021 I had started a space on the internet to house my thinking around reverse mentorship and cross generational learning. I created Substack to support my medium writing, called The Reverse Mentor. The name was linked to a podcast that I had started with the same name.
As my writing has evolved I have realised that it was difficult to place my thinking in a clearly defined box. In a large part due to the diversity and the interconnectedness of the spaces that I draw inspiration from.
This brings us to the name puzzle piece. It’s a term that was used by a close friend to describe my ability to translate complexity into relatable terminology. It has also been used to describe how I merge together seemingly uncorrelated spaces to add nuance to a point of view.
Puzzle piece is evolving space that will house my longer form writing that is polished enough for a broader audience. The focus will be shaped by my curiosity and will primarily cover – strategy, philosophy, emerging tech, crypto’s influence on society, distributed decision making, sense making, and generational learning.
Puzzle piece will be featured as a series within josh.mirror.xyz - as I intend to use my mirror publication to feature all areas of my writing not just those that I will cover in the puzzle piece realm.
I’ll do my best to write regularly and to share liberally, but thoughtfully at the same time. For the moment, I will cross post pieces through my mirror publication and my Substack as some of my subscribed readers are not web3 native and will battle to navigate the use of a wallet.
Let’s craft some puzzle pieces together.

I have a deep curiosity for understanding how things work. The search for answers has led to me engage/refine/improve my intuition through asking questions and listening to the feedback.
In 2021 I had started a space on the internet to house my thinking around reverse mentorship and cross generational learning. I created Substack to support my medium writing, called The Reverse Mentor. The name was linked to a podcast that I had started with the same name.
As my writing has evolved I have realised that it was difficult to place my thinking in a clearly defined box. In a large part due to the diversity and the interconnectedness of the spaces that I draw inspiration from.
This brings us to the name puzzle piece. It’s a term that was used by a close friend to describe my ability to translate complexity into relatable terminology. It has also been used to describe how I merge together seemingly uncorrelated spaces to add nuance to a point of view.
Puzzle piece is evolving space that will house my longer form writing that is polished enough for a broader audience. The focus will be shaped by my curiosity and will primarily cover – strategy, philosophy, emerging tech, crypto’s influence on society, distributed decision making, sense making, and generational learning.
Puzzle piece will be featured as a series within josh.mirror.xyz - as I intend to use my mirror publication to feature all areas of my writing not just those that I will cover in the puzzle piece realm.
I’ll do my best to write regularly and to share liberally, but thoughtfully at the same time. For the moment, I will cross post pieces through my mirror publication and my Substack as some of my subscribed readers are not web3 native and will battle to navigate the use of a wallet.
Let’s craft some puzzle pieces together.

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