# kdaniel

Personal site of kdaniel — mapper, builder, writer. Runs wardleymaps.com since 2013: the main Wardley Mapping community resource, including strategic guides, a community forum (community.wardleymaps.com), a curated resource list (list.wardleymaps.com), and the Atlas mapping tools. Over a decade of experience applying Wardley Mapping in strategy work with organisations. Also built personal-presence-os, a multi-domain static content engine (Bun/Hono) for LLM-readable personal and project sites.

> Site: https://kdaniel.io

## Pages

- [Projects](https://kdaniel.io/projects)
- [About](https://kdaniel.io/about)

## Opinions

- [A new contestant for the worst strategic move of 2021](https://kdaniel.io/o/a-new-contestant-for-the-worst-strategic-move-of-2021)
- [Crypto](https://kdaniel.io/o/crypto)
- [Strategy & Transformation Office](https://kdaniel.io/o/strategy-transformation)
- [Two Things We Call Strategy](https://kdaniel.io/o/two-things-we-call-strategy)
- [Mood or Dependency](https://kdaniel.io/o/mood-or-dependency)

## Decisions

- 0002 [Cross-domain reputation linking strategy](https://kdaniel.io/decisions/0002-cross-domain-reputation-linking)
- 0001 [Deployment: Hetzner VPS + Cloudflare over AWS Amplify](https://kdaniel.io/decisions/0001-amplify-deployment-options)

## Other sites

- [Wardley Maps](https://wardleymaps.com) — Learn Wardley Mapping — a visual technique for navigating uncertainty, understanding value chains, and making better strategic decisions.
- [Doctrine Assessment Tool](https://doctrine2.kdaniel.io) — Assess your organisation against Simon Wardley's doctrine — click each principle to mark it good, medium, or bad and spot where you self-sabotage.
- [Unseizable](https://unseizable.fyi) — The mindset that survives revolutions, exile, and regime change — and the small loops that install it in you. Research into what moves you up.
- [Open Source Research](https://open-source-research.kdaniel.io) — Commentaries on the economics, governance, and strategy of open source — who benefits, who contributes, and what sustainability actually looks like.
- [AI POV](https://ai-pov.kdaniel.io) — A practitioner's point of view on AI adoption — dependency risks, organisational strategy, and what most people get wrong about using AI well.
- [Execute](https://execute.kdaniel.io) — Practitioner notes on getting things actually delivered: what counts as a deliverable, why finishing is hard, and how to avoid working on the wrong things.
- [Lego Submarine](https://lego-submarine.kdaniel.io) — A father-son project that started as a weekend build and turned into eighteen months of rework, uncertainty, and persistence.
- [personal-presence-os](https://personal-presence-os.kdaniel.io) — Be everywhere your audience is. Engage flexibly across platforms, but always retain sovereign content on domains you own and control.