Flywheel — Learning & Practice
Habits and compounding practice — small actions that build lasting capability over time. Articles in this layer explore learning, resilience, personal development, and the disciplines that compound.
When I first started out, I did the obvious thing. I got good at the work in front of me. It didn't take long to notice that being good wasn't enough.
Progress isn't movement — it's seeing. What stop-motion animation reveals about how your ideas actually become valuable.
It was some time in the mid to late 80s. A café in Bristol, a man sitting alone, and a twelve-year-old with a new notebook writing his first ever note. Thirty years on, that habit became all of this — and now a good part of it goes public.
We give a great deal of attention to the people we want to be like. The people we'd hate to become are teaching us something too — if we choose to look.
We often use amateur as an insult at work. But the word comes from the Latin for lover — and Vivian Maier's story shows exactly why that matters.
Working life is where you get gradually better at what you already know how to do. On learning as a practice, not an event.
The meeting moved on. Someone named the problem, proposed the solution, and the room agreed. Six months later, it turns out you were right. On developing curiosity as a practice — whether anyone listens or not.
A practical breakdown of the Lion, T-Rex, Mouse and Monkey communication styles—and how to adapt your behaviour for clearer, more effective communication at work.
We were scaling fast and the standard hiring playbook wasn't working. Skills alone didn't tell us who would thrive. So we studied the outliers.