Our focus is tension, difference and the space in between

We’re living in a time of constant pressure to pick a side. Work or life. Speed or sustainability. Growth or rest.

We’re told it should be this, that. To choose clarity. To cut out the noise. No.

At and., we believe the future doesn’t sit in extremes.

It lives in the tension.

The space in-between.

And that space is rich with possibility, if we’re willing to work with it, not against it.

We’ve learned this from philosophers and founders, researchers and real humans:

• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, who said contradiction is how progress happens.

• Anne-Laure Le Cunff, who shows that small, thoughtful experiments are how we actually change.

• Tim Duggan, who reminds us that clarity doesn’t come from guessing the next step, but from starting at the end and working backwards.

• Victoria Song, who’s redefining power as presence, flexibility and emotional honesty.

• Stephanie Harrison, who says happiness isn’t comfort. It’s contribution.

Their work, and our own, leads us to a new way of thinking, and a new way of building. One where: