Technology, games, people.
A record of what I’ve built, and what it taught me.
I’m Chris Kempt. I’ve spent nearly three decades building companies, products and games, usually while trying to understand the people and systems behind them. The technology has changed. The difficult questions have not: why teams work, why projects fail, why people disagree and how good ideas survive contact with organisations.
Kempt & Co brings that work together. You’ll find the businesses I’ve built, the games I’ve worked on and my writing about technology, creativity, human behaviour and being human.
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After decades of collecting observations about people, systems and the environments they adapt to, I’ve finally turned the fragments into my first book. The Hunting Party asks what happens when we stop asking which kind of person is best and start asking what different kinds of people are for.
Latest Posts
The latest ramblings from a compulsively curious mind…
- An Open Letter to Sam Altman & the Team at OpenAIDear Sam and everyone at OpenAI, I want to say thank you. This is not a polished product review, a carefully calculated business case, or a request for anything. It is simply an honest note from someone who found themselves… Read more: An Open Letter to Sam Altman & the Team at OpenAI
- Writing at the Speed of ThoughtHow I turned 45 years of thinking into a 50k-word book in six days A few days ago, I found myself eating a bowl of cereal while dictating part of a book into my computer and wondering how quickly I… Read more: Writing at the Speed of Thought
- The Hunting PartyMy first book took six days to write and 51 years to collect.
Elsewhere, I write about human behaviour, AI in practice, business, leadership, careers, games, lean thinking and the occasional life lesson.