The Limits We Inherit
On how family, culture and social expectations can shape the limits we perceive as real, and why learning to distinguish inherited expectations from genuine constraints matters.
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O·700 Works
Essays and intellectual works by Sebastian Valdivieso. O·700 Works is their permanent public home within Valdivieso & Co.
Essays are published in English, with selected works also available in Spanish.
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When the Path Closes, Find the Principle
A reflection on how abstraction can separate the form of an aspiration from the principles that made it valuable, allowing us to recognise other paths when one closes.
The Price of Strategic Depth
About the cost of preserving Strategic Depth: why reserves, alternatives and unused capacity may reduce short-term optimisation while protecting optionality, adaptability and freedom of action across changing conditions.
Sophisticated Forecasting, Fragile Strategy
An exploration of why increasingly sophisticated forecasting can still produce fragile strategy when too much depends on being right, and how Strategic Depth preserves the freedom to revise judgement, absorb error and change direction.
Fragility, Shocks and the Threshold of Crisis
On how fragility accumulated before a crisis can be as consequential as the shock that triggers it, and why examining the architecture of a system helps reveal its capacity to absorb adversity.
Strategic Depth: Thriving Under Uncertainty and Building for the Long Term
An essay on building capacity, diversity, optionality and resilience to preserve freedom of action under uncertainty, reducing dependence on perfect forecasts and permanently favourable conditions.
Theseus Through the Labyrinth
On navigating a reality too complex to be fully understood, using necessarily incomplete mental maps and learning to revise them through evidence, experience, reason and courage. Through the Labyrinth explores how to preserve the ability to change direction, learn from error and enlarge the field of possibility for those who follow.