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.
Learning & Practice (Flywheel)
Studying is not about collecting information. It is about transforming ideas into understanding through action, reflection, and teaching. Ten principles for genuinely learning anything.
Creativity & Climate (Engine)
Paper is not obsolete — it is thinking technology that has survived every digital revolution. A practical case for analogue tools as cognitive environments, not nostalgic curiosities.
Learning & Practice (Flywheel)
Commercial awareness, communication, and lived experience — not years on a CV. Three things that matter when hiring, and why perspective is the one that compounds.
Learning & Practice (Flywheel)
Six habits a newsroom trains into you - tell the truth, keep notes, think critically, be fair, protect what's private - and why they turn out to be the essence of ethical work.
Learning & Practice (Flywheel)
On Oscar Wilde, a 2,500-year-old wheelwright, and the truth that the things most worth knowing can't be taught, only earned.
Communication (Wiring)
On the four levels a message gets stuck at, and how to tell whether you actually landed it or just let go of it.
Learning & Practice (Flywheel)
People hand a workshop teacher the things they can't get back — time, energy, attention. On why running one is teaching, not facilitating, and the craft that difference demands.
Learning & Practice (Flywheel)
On why we confuse shipping with value, and the three questions Henry James asked of any work - the last of which almost nobody asks.
Creativity & Climate (Engine)
I set out to post one small idea about creativity every day for a month. LinkedIn killed it on day six. Here are the thirty that survived — free to read.
Learning & Practice (Flywheel)
I discovered the Cornell Note-Taking Method over a decade ago and promptly ignored it. It sounded dull and academic. Then I tried it properly. I have not really stopped since.
Learning & Practice (Flywheel)
I own far too many notebooks, and I've downloaded every note-taking app going. On why the tool was never the system — and why a knowledge system that doesn't change your behaviour isn't doing its job.
Learning & Practice (Flywheel)
There are two ways to learn anything: taking in information, and doing the thing. On why you need both, and why a teacher beside you beats either.