creativity

A short creative project exploring everyday creativity — originally conceived as a pop-up experiment and now published as a free guide.

Creativity is rarely blocked by a lack of ideas. It’s blocked by fear — fear of rejection, embarrassment, and getting it wrong. This essay explores why creating feels so vulnerable at work, and what helps people keep going anyway.

Slowing down learning is sometimes the fastest way to grow. This essay explores why analogue tools help turn information into knowledge — and how a personal knowledge system should change behaviour, not just store notes.

An essay on building a studio — not as an office, but as a place for thinking, making, and turning ideas into value.

A short personal essay on stepping away, facing creative fear, and discovering that retreats don’t remove tension — they reveal it.

Good leaders share a quiet but powerful trait: they notice. They see patterns in people, cracks in systems, and signals hidden in everyday work — and they use that awareness to guide others.

For years I’ve kept a commonplace book — a personal library of ideas, observations, and fragments. This essay explores how it became a quiet system for thinking, learning, and creativity.

Journaling became a quiet discipline that changed how I think, lead, and live. This essay explores why reflection, not speed, is the foundation of a good working life.

Learning does not happen by collecting information. It happens by turning experience into understanding. This essay outlines the personal knowledge system I use to do exactly that.