Cultivated

Journalism taught me how to tell the truth, keep notes, think critically, and protect what matters. These habits turned out to be essential not just for reporting — but for ethical work, leadership, and decision-making.

A reflective essay on escape, attention, and creativity at work — using an old leisure model to explore why capable people disengage, and what it takes to move from numbing distraction back to meaningful creation.

Most ideas don’t fail because they’re bad — they fail because they’re framed in the wrong language. This essay explores how value translation changes everything.

Most workplaces have long rewarded one narrow form of intelligence. But there are at least eight — and the best organisations know how to recognise and use them all.

When projects look green on the surface but are failing underneath, the problem isn’t reporting — it’s fear, culture, and distance from reality.

The words we choose matter. How we behave matters more. Culture, leadership, and trust are shaped by what we do — not what we say.

Hierarchy is often blamed for dysfunction at work. In reality, most problems come from behaviour, capability, and responsibility — not structure itself.

You can teach the basics of any craft, but competence only emerges through practice. This essay explores why learning fails when it is mistaken for information transfer — and how real capability is formed.

Most workplace communication fails not because messages are unclear, but because feedback is missing. Sent does not mean received — and without feedback, meaning does not travel.