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.
Six habits a newsroom trains into you - tell the truth, keep notes, think critically, be fair, protect what's private - and why they turn out to be the essence of ethical work.
On Oscar Wilde, a 2,500-year-old wheelwright, and the truth that the things most worth knowing can't be taught, only earned.
On the four levels a message gets stuck at, and how to tell whether you actually landed it or just let go of it.
People hand a workshop teacher the things they can't get back — time, energy, attention. On why running one is teaching, not facilitating, and the craft that difference demands.
On why we confuse shipping with value, and the three questions Henry James asked of any work - the last of which almost nobody asks.
I set out to post one small idea about creativity every day for a month. LinkedIn killed it on day six. Here are the thirty that survived — free to read.
I discovered the Cornell Note-Taking Method over a decade ago and promptly ignored it. It sounded dull and academic. Then I tried it properly. I have not really stopped since.
There are two ways to learn anything: taking in information, and doing the thing. On why you need both, and why a teacher beside you beats either.
She'd been doing most of the job for a year. They hired someone in over her - the following day she updated her CV.