The Zero Point Newsletter

Written for the
threshold moments.

Essays, anecdotes, and framework thinking on the events that divide life into Before and After. No schedule. No noise. Published when there is something worth saying.

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I

Essays

Extended thinking on the Zero Point framework — the concepts, the questions, the territory where the model touches the specifics of a life or organisation.

II

Anecdotes

True accounts of real Zero Points in real lives — in the six domains, across different stages of life and career, with the framework applied with precision to each one.

III

Framework Notes

Shorter pieces on specific concepts, questions, and applications of the model — particularly useful for practitioners and those using the framework in professional contexts.

From the archive

Mar 2026

The Difference Between a Crisis and a Zero Point

Every crisis has an epicentre. Zero Point is a coordinate. Understanding the distinction changes how you relate to every difficult moment in your life.

Feb 2026

Fragility Dressed as Stability

On the revenue concentration problem, and the structural exposures that most founders know about but haven’t yet had sufficient reason to address.

Jan 2026

The Thursday Meeting

What the sudden loss of an eleven-year CFO revealed about the difference between a company that was resilient and one that built itself around a person.

Dec 2025

Twenty-Two Minutes

On what it means to hold two versions of your life simultaneously. The IVF clinic. The silence on the drive home that wasn’t empty.

Nov 2025

The Attend Problem

Why we move too fast through the threshold — and what we miss when we do. On the most underused phase of the Zero Point framework.

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The Zero Point Newsletter

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Essays, anecdotes, and framework thinking on the events that divide life into Before and After. No noise. Published when there is something worth saying.

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