Monday Momentum (on Wednesday … ) – 10 June 2026
There is a specific quality to the week after a solid but incomplete one. You know what moved. You know what did not. The gap does not motivate in the abstract. It clarifies. It tells you exactly where to put the weight.
Last week was good thinking. This week the question is simpler and harder: does the thinking move?
Three places where it has to.
The NED journey gets a real test this week. A room full of people and a single question underneath all of them: what do you actually bring to a board? The answer I have been building toward (strategy and commercialisation in regulated, data-intensive environments) is not a career summary. It is an orientation. It tells a board what kind of problem I was built to help solve. I need to walk in with that as the first sentence. Not the last hedge.
Italy and Switzerland need a first concrete move. Not another week of intent sitting in a notebook. Smart Mountains is in the seeding phase on paper. This week it becomes real, a meeting scheduled, a document sent, a conversation that was deferred because a partner was unwell moved anyway, quietly. You can leave something on someone’s desk even when they are not in the room.
Valtellina needs a call. Building works drift when they are not touched. Fifteen minutes is enough to keep something alive. That is not a metaphor. It is a literal fifteen-minute call that either happens or does not.
What I am carrying into the week that is not work.
A shoulder giving me information, not permission. I am listening to it rather than negotiating with it.
A family weekend that landed well and deserves to be protected, not squeezed for one more hour of productivity.
A daughter who led her first hard indoor climbing problem and now needs a route outside. On real rock. With real air.
The move from indoor to outdoor is never only technical. The holds are smaller. The clips are different. The environment does not care how many times you have done it on plastic. It asks you to trust the same skill in a context that does not offer the same reassurance. That is not a bad description of what the NED work is asking of me right now. Same skill. Different context. The wall does not confirm you. You either climb or you do not.
Carry the week lightly. Move the pieces.
See you on the trails. Or on a rock.
This week I am asking myself: where in your work are you still rehearsing instead of doing, and what is the one move that would make it real? I would love to hear your answer.