Hi, I'm Allen Pattiselanno.
I am a Christian, husband, father, writer, digital transformation leader, wargame designer, mentor, and lifelong student of people, technology, history, and faith.
For more than four decades, I've been fascinated by how people think, learn, decide, lead, and change. That curiosity has taken me through many different worlds: ministry, community service, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, military history, leadership development, writing, and game design. At first glance, these interests may seem unrelated. To me, they are all part of the same question:
How do people make sense of a complex world and move forward with wisdom, purpose, and conviction?
I have ADHD. The interesting thing is that I didn't know it for most of my life.
Long before anyone suggested I might have ADHD, I was already using the traits that came with it. I would dive deeply into subjects that fascinated me, connect ideas across different disciplines, spot patterns that others missed, and bounce effortlessly between technology, leadership, theology, military history, writing, and strategy.
To me, this was simply normal. It was how I had always thought. It was only later that I realise that many of the things I considered ordinary were actually part of how my ADHD brain worked.
While others often specialise deeply in a single domain, I have always been drawn to the spaces between disciplines. I enjoy exploring how ideas from one field can illuminate another. A lesson from military history may influence leadership thinking. A theological principle may shape how I approach digital transformation. A wargame may reveal insights about decision-making under pressure.
My mind is rarely interested in isolated facts. It is constantly searching for connections.
That ability to connect seemingly unrelated ideas has become one of my greatest strengths. It helps me see opportunities, anticipate challenges, identify patterns, and ask questions that might otherwise go unnoticed.
I don't see ADHD as something to overcome.
I see it as one of the tools God has used to shape how I think, learn, create, and serve.
My CliftonStrengths profile reflects how I approach life and leadership. I am naturally drawn to ideas, learning, strategy, relationships, and helping people see new possibilities.
I enjoy asking questions such as:
Why are we doing this?
What problem are we really trying to solve?
What assumptions are we making?
What happens if we continue on our current path?
What could be possible if we were willing to think differently?
I believe good strategy is not about creating impressive plans.
It is about helping people make better decisions.
Technology, AI, organisational change, and leadership are ultimately human challenges before they become technical ones.
Professionally, I have spent much of my career helping organisations navigate change, particularly in digital transformation and technology adoption.
As a Christian, I believe technology is neither good nor bad in itself. It is a tool. The real question is whether we are using it to serve people well, steward resources wisely, and advance the mission God has entrusted to us.
This is why I am particularly passionate about helping Christian leaders think through digital transformation and artificial intelligence from a Christ-centred perspective.
The goal is not simply efficiency.
The goal is faithfulness.
Technology should help organisations serve people better, build stronger communities, make wiser decisions, and create greater impact for the Kingdom of God.
I am the author of Who Do You Say I Am?, a discipleship book exploring the identity of Jesus and what that means for believers today.
I am also the creator of the Generic Wargaming System (GWS), a modular wargaming framework designed to make military history, strategy, and decision-making accessible to hobbyists and learners alike.
Whether I am writing a book, designing a game, teaching AI, mentoring leaders, or leading a transformation initiative, I am ultimately doing the same thing:
Helping people think more clearly.
Helping people make better decisions.
Helping people move forward with confidence and purpose.
Random Thoughts at the Speed of Light is my digital notebook.
It is where I share ideas, lessons learned, books, projects, reflections, experiments, successes, failures, and occasionally the strange connections my ADHD brain insists on making.
Some articles will be about faith.
Others will be about leadership, technology, military history, artificial intelligence, writing, or life.
All of them are attempts to understand the world a little better and to help others do the same.
If something here encourages you, challenges you, teaches you, or simply makes you think, then this site has fulfilled its purpose.
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