Fab’s Friday Field Notes

Fab’s Friday Field Notes (Saturday Edition) These notes are a day late. Yesterday was full — ride, work, climbing, family, friends. In that order. Mostly. Sometimes the best thing you can do is let the week breathe before you write about it. Friday morning. Winchester. December sun pretending it’s April. Craig and I on the…

Fab’s Friday Field Notes We had one of our climbing friends over for dinner this week. Beautiful person, exceptional climber, but suffering right now for reasons that have nothing to do with climbing. We didn’t offer advice. We offered dinner, conversation, and laughter. A place at the table. Sometimes the most profound thing you can…

Fab’s Friday Field Notes This week reminded me of something I learned decades ago on la grande cresta with Alessandro Gogna and Marco Milani – that the outdoors doesn’t require epic journeys to distant peaks. Sometimes the most meaningful adventures begin right outside your door. Family Trails Saturday brought one of those simple, perfect moments.…

Fab’s Friday Field Notes Note: Publishing Sunday instead of Friday – the whole family caught some bug this week. Which is itself a reminder: presence sometimes means being sick together, not performing productivity. I’ve been thinking about the friends I’m losing. Not through conflict or distance or falling out. Through something quieter and more insidious.…

Fab’s Friday Field Notes – November 22, 2025 by Fabrizio de Liberali, Southampton, UK Tired fingers typing this after yesterday’s session with Richard and Andy. That steep 6c+ didn’t go until the third attempt—a route that should have been comfortable territory by now. But here’s the thing about comfort: it’s where growth stops. The Mirror…

November 14th, 2025 Fab’s Friday Field Notes Two weeks ago, I told you about Wines2Whales. Three stages. Three leadership modes. Hold back, push ahead, reunite. This week I learned something harder: finishing the race was just the warm-up. Eleven Hours That Rewired My Brain Cape Town to London. Eleven hours. The universe has a sense…

Fab’s Friday Field Notes Stage 1: When Holding Back Takes More Strength 61 kilometers. 1,100 meters of elevation. One deliberate choice. I rode the first stage of Wines2Whales Epic with an overloaded backpack and my enduro bike – not exactly the setup for speed. But that wasn’t the point. My partner needed me alongside, not…

Weekly Recap: October 20-27, 2025 This week I’ve been orchestrating multiple high-stakes ventures across climate tech, digital rights advocacy, and strategic partnerships. Project Spotlight: Smart Mountains Strategic Pivot Transformed Smart Mountains from a pure technology play into an operational infrastructure company through innovative partnership structures. The challenge? Securing €2M seed funding while dramatically reducing capital…

Last week, I was architecting transformation strategies across three fascinating fronts. Project Spotlight: Designed comprehensive HR frameworks for a fifty-person ESG company going through major reorganisation. The challenge? Their new head of HR needed to interview every employee while creating career development paths from scratch. My solution combined structured interview templates with competency mapping that aligns…

An Excerpt from “When Fiction Becomes Field Manual: Why We Need to Break Up with Big Tech” Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Facebook executive who worked directly with Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, borrows her book title from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures…