Cultivated

Hiring is one of the most important decisions organisations make. This essay explores how to design remote interviews that combine rigour with humanity — and judgement with care.

The most powerful productivity question is also the simplest: what problem are we trying to solve? This essay explores how better questions turn busy work into meaningful progress.

Most training fails because it measures attendance instead of behaviour. Real training is not awareness — it is sustained change in how people work.

One of the most powerful ways to improve a system is to follow a single piece of work as it really moves. This essay introduces a simple, human method for seeing how value is created — and lost — inside organisations.

Good note-taking is not about recording the past. It is a tool for thinking in the present — shaping attention, learning, and judgment as work unfolds.

Most productivity systems are just two things: a container for work and a set of rules for how it moves. This essay explores how clarity, not tools, is the real foundation of effectiveness.

Thriving in your career is not an accident. It is a choice — a series of small decisions about what kind of life your work is meant to serve.

Effectiveness is not about domination or busyness. It is a human craft — holding value and relationships in tension so that work truly lands and progress endures.

Effective communication is not a technique to be mastered, but a human craft to be practised. This essay explores why communication remains the most transferable skill in working life — and how it quietly shapes influence, leadership, and the movement of ideas.