Learning & Practice (Flywheel)

Learning & Practice (Flywheel)

The Skills You Learn on a Market Stall

What trade skills, commercial awareness and practical judgement can teach us about turning ideas into value.

The Word at Work

Craft is power — and where your power at work really lives

We've made the word craft soft — craft beer, craft fairs, hand-crafted. Underneath sits an older meaning worth recovering: craft meant power. Here's where yours lives at work.

Communication (Wiring)

Is the CV Still the Best Way to Represent Professional Value?

The CV has survived decades of reinvention around it — and viewed as a communication tool with a purpose, an audience and a context, that survival makes sense. What's missing is something else entirely.

Learning & Practice (Flywheel)

The three areas of learning — and the one very few people invest in

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.

Idea to Value (Physics)

The three ways ideas change (or don't)

Progress isn't movement — it's seeing. What stop-motion animation reveals about how your ideas actually become valuable.

Learning & Practice (Flywheel)

The Public Commonplace Project

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.

Learning & Practice (Flywheel)

Good teaching is the creation of understanding

Good teaching is not the transfer of information. It is the creation of understanding.

Creativity & Climate (Engine)

The anti-role model

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.

Creativity & Climate (Engine)

Being an Amateur

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.

Learning & Practice (Flywheel)

How to lead with curiosity

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.

Communication (Wiring)

How Reading and Writing Make You a Better Communicator

Communication isn't a presentation skill. It's a daily practice — shaped by habits of attention, vocabulary, and clarity of thought. Two low-barrier practices that quietly compound over time: reading and writing.

Orientation & Direction (Map)

How To Climb the Career Ladder Thoughtfully

Career advancement follows quieter mechanics than most people expect — patterns of behaviour, systemic contribution, and clarity of intent. A practical exploration of the structural forces that actually move people forward.