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When Minotaur Meets Centaur
Organisations increasingly encourage people to speak, while retaining strong control over meaning. Voice remains present, but interpretation narrows. Trust does not collapse suddenly. It shifts. Signals reach leadership filtered, hesitation replaces challenge, and coherence weakens over time. Reading organisational voice as a field helps detect these trust gaps before outcomes or crises force them into view.
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Feb 41 min read




When Titles Stop Carrying You
A dialogue between RIZOM co-founders on professional identity, symbolic topology, and crossing thresholds
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Jan 178 min read


After The Title
When a senior career ends abruptly, the rupture is rarely only professional. What falls away is also a structure of meaning that has long held identity in place.
At that moment, the core question is who speaks when the corporate voice falls silent.
This is the time for recursive reflection, for separating the role once worn from the presence one now wishes to inhabit. Pauses in visibility, retreats, or the refusal to rush into self-packaging are acts of regained agency.
RIZOM
Jan 151 min read


Family values
Family values often appear as care, tradition, and togetherness. At year-end, they also expose another structure: an invisible ledger that records effort, availability, and endurance. Some are asked again and again, others are spared. This produces a sense of permanent indebtedness.
We explore how this ledger forms, how it persists, and how to step out of it.
RIZOM
Dec 27, 20251 min read


Shame | Gerhard Richter and the Art of Resolution
December is when unfinished stories feel loudest.
We sense the things we did not do, the promises we did not keep, the fractures we did not mend. The calendar invites us to write “resolutions”. Yet underneath the word sits its shadow: shame.
Walking through the Gerhard Richter retrospective, these two forces were everywhere. Shame, in the form of a national past that cannot be made right. Resolution, in the form of a lifetime practice of finding a truthful relation to that pa
RIZOM
Dec 8, 20251 min read


The Meaning Manifesto
Where can meaning be found?
A call to the guardians of the symbolic curve to help the world reinvent itself with meaning.
RIZOM
Dec 1, 20252 min read


El Manifesto del Sentido
¿Dónde encontrar el sentido?
Un llamado a los guardianes de la curva simbólica a obrar juntos para que el mundo se reinvente en el sentido.
RIZOM
Dec 1, 20252 min read


A Day of Thanksgiving
A ritual begins as a pattern of attention. Thanksgiving, in its civic form, translates a private emotion into collective rhythm: it is a gesture of gratitude rehearsed until it becomes belonging. Yet every year the table also exposes the fault lines in that belonging. Who is missing. Who is not speaking. Who comes late or not at all.
Between generosity and grievance, repetition and refusal, Thanksgiving becomes a test of the symbolic field.
RIZOM
Nov 22, 20251 min read


Reading the Symbolic Field
How RIZOM Dashboard turns metaphors into insights
RIZOM
Nov 18, 20254 min read


The Anatomy of Meaning
How meaning takes shape, at individual and collective levels
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Nov 17, 20254 min read


The King, the Jester, the Consort & the Heir
Tradition thrives on continuity, yet every dynasty needs its fracture to remember what binds it. The Court of St James’s, centre stage again this week, offers more than gossip or protocol: it is a living diagram of rupture and repair.
Between hierarchy and affection, ceremony and survival, we read in its gestures a study of how power restores its symbolic field after the crown has cracked.
RIZOM
Nov 9, 20251 min read


Trick or Treat | Trust and the Fear of...
How trust and fear mirror each other; one stitching coherence, the other testing its seams.
RIZOM
Nov 1, 20251 min read


Technology as a Layer of Meaning
How technology shapes not just what we do, but what we mean, from algorithms that mirror our desires to systems that seek coherence between code and culture.
RIZOM
Oct 25, 20251 min read


The Antechrist and the Algorithm
Innovation begins not in systems, but in meaning, more precisely in the capacity to transform ambiguity into insight.
RIZOM
Oct 16, 20251 min read


Symbolic Infrastructure in CultTech: Ritual, Topology, and the Measurement of Meaning
From capturing behaviour to tracing meaning for culture to hold our inner lives.
RIZOM
Oct 16, 20259 min read


REACT25 - RIZOM Joins the Conversation at the Frontier of CultTech
RIZOM takes part in REACT 2025 (Research and Educational Advancements in Culture and Technology), opening the CultTech Summit, Vienna.
RIZOM
Oct 15, 20254 min read


The Leadership Innovation Ladder
How symbolic leaders nurture innovation through meaning
RIZOM
Oct 12, 20254 min read


On Desire and Resonance
Paris Fashion Week and how leadership, coherence, and symbolic infrastructure shape the new field of influence.
RIZOM
Oct 9, 20251 min read


The Shape That Holds
When structures strain, triangles appear: the simplest shape that still remembers how to hold.
Every field under pressure seeks its own stabilising form.
RIZOM
Oct 4, 20251 min read


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