Learning & Practice (Flywheel)
Habits and compounding practice — small actions that build lasting capability over time. Articles in this layer explore learning, resilience, personal development, and the disciplines that compound.
Collecting isn't learning. A personal knowledge system — Capture, Curate, Crunch, Contribute — for turning what you read into what you do.
What trade skills, commercial awareness and practical judgement can teach us about turning ideas into value.
We've made the word craft soft — craft beer, craft fairs, hand-crafted. Underneath sits an older meaning worth recovering: craft meant power. Here's where yours lives at work.
The CV has survived decades of reinvention around it — and viewed as a communication tool with a purpose, an audience and a context, that survival makes sense. What's missing is something else entirely.
When I first started out, I did the obvious thing. I got good at the work in front of me. It didn't take long to notice that being good wasn't enough.
Progress isn't movement — it's seeing. What stop-motion animation reveals about how your ideas actually become valuable.
It was some time in the mid to late 80s. A café in Bristol, a man sitting alone, and a twelve-year-old with a new notebook writing his first ever note. Thirty years on, that habit became all of this — and now a good part of it goes public.
Good teaching is not the transfer of information. It is the creation of understanding.
We give a great deal of attention to the people we want to be like. The people we'd hate to become are teaching us something too — if we choose to look.