Idea to Value (Physics)
Nice notebook, shame about the method
Why every productivity system — a bullet journal, a to-do list, a huge platform — is just a container and rules.
Rob Lambert
Learning & Practice (Flywheel)
Mr Freaking Furious
In 2006 a stranger at a conference told me how much he hated his life — his job, his boss, probably the sandwiches. On the difference between succeeding and thriving, and why thriving is something you choose rather than something that accumulates.
Communication (Wiring)
As warm as a cuddly toy
Why real effectiveness lives in the tension between the value you create and the relationships you create it through.
Communication (Wiring)
Listening is the greatest compliment - a case for active listening at work
Watch an adult listen to a small child — the turned body, the long pauses, the full attention — then watch the same adults listen to each other at work. We know how to do this. A guide to winning it back, and to the power of being fully heard.
Communication (Wiring)
The meeting that ate the morning
I ask every workshop the same question: has anyone here ever sat in a truly effective meeting? The hands mostly stay down. On why meetings are ineffective by design, the few honest choices that fix them — and one meeting that ate a whole morning.
Orientation & Direction (Map)
Be surprised less often
Seasoned people aren't cleverer — they're better oriented. They see what's forming while others are still reacting. On awareness as a practice, weak signals, and why so much of experience is really just earlier sight.
Communication (Wiring)
Leadership was never about being seen
For most of modern history, managing people rested on one quiet assumption: if I can see you, I can lead you. Remote work didn't break that idea so much as pull the dust sheets off it — and show what leadership was always really made of.
Creativity & Climate (Engine)
Movements precede mandates
On why real change starts in conversations, coffees and shared frustrations long before it ever reaches the org chart.
Orientation & Direction (Map)
Nice font. Bad coffee. Change is powered by meaning.
Why clarity comes before control, and how teams actually change.