Mangazine · Volume 1 · Premiere Edition
DESIRE PATH
A different path. Better questions. Stronger futures.
A business mangazine combining thought-provoking articles with manga-inspired illustrations to explore the hidden behaviours shaping work, technology, AI and modern life.
Observe · Question · Understand · Build Better Tomorrows
What is a desire path?
In urban design, a desire path is the unofficial route people naturally create when the designed path doesn't match real human behaviour. You see it when people walk across grass instead of following the paved walkway. Nobody planned it. Nobody approved it. But enough people made the same choice that the grass wore down and a new path appeared.
Technology works the same way. Every workaround, every spreadsheet built beside an enterprise system, every shadow AI tool adopted without approval, every unofficial Slack channel, every bypassed approval flow, every temporary process that has quietly run for three years. They all point to the same thing: a gap between how systems were designed and how humans actually operate.
A desire path is not automatically a failure of discipline. It can be a failure of design.
The most revealing part of any technology environment is rarely the official process. It's the behaviour happening around it.
Follow the clicks. Find the path.
What it explores
- Work
- New ways of thinking and doing.
- Technology
- Tools, systems and their impact.
- AI
- Opportunities, risks and reality.
- Life
- The human side of progress.
From LinkedIn to publication
Desire Path began as weekly posts on LinkedIn. What began as ten weekly reflections sparked conversations, challenged assumptions and revealed patterns worth exploring deeper.
A collection of those posts became Desire Path Mangazine Volume 1, published through Zenodo with a persistent DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21455630.