Podcast

Efficient and effective are not the same thing. On why communication isn't a soft skill at all, but the most portable capability you can build.

Many leaders talk about building a learning culture. They invest in platforms, courses, certifications, dashboards. They measure hours, completions, compliance. And yet, very little changes.

Life cannot be balanced — only oriented. This essay explores the Pillars of Life: a way of looking at the tensions across the pillars that make us who we are.

A strong conference submission signals clarity and credibility. A practical guide to writing proposals that get accepted — from finding the CFP to submitting with intent.

A forgotten bottle of suncream, an hour to kill in a Greek taverna, and a retired schoolteacher who never stopped learning. On how to actually study — and why most of what we call studying isn't learning at all.

Every organisation is a book, and right now — noticed or not — you're writing a chapter of it. On leadership, storytelling, and the difference between authoring your year and having it happen to you.

We like to believe what we wear doesn't matter. It does — and not only in how others read us, but in how we perform ourselves. On the research into clothing, confidence and "enclothed cognition", and the small wardrobe of triggers I use to change gear.

A field recording in the barley, the real science on fluorescent flicker and daylight, and the small, cheap changes that bring some of the outside back into where we work.

At work we've decided friction is simply the enemy, and go to war on it without ever studying what we're removing. This is the lens I use instead: the three kinds of friction, the quadrant, and why a frictionless life isn't the point.