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This week I stopped running two of the regular rituals that keep our delivery team ticking — on purpose.
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One Thing Is Never Enough
The Western productivity conversation has a single variable problem. It optimises for one thing at a time: find your passion, build your career capital, improve your habits, invest in you…
Attention as the Primary Resource
Five books from five disciplines — philosophy, Stoicism, psychology, behavioural economics, and relational science — reach the same conclusion: attention is not a productivity tool. It is…
Cognitive Biases in Delivery Leadership
Planning fallacy (Kahneman) Forecasts trend toward the best-case scenario by default. People focus on their specific plan and ignore how similar plans have turned out in the past. The fix…
Deliberate Practice — How to Actually Get Better
Most people plateau. Not because they lack intelligence or effort — but because they confuse activity with practice, and comfort with competence.
Social Fitness
The Harvard Study of Adult Development tracked 724 men from 1938, and over 1,300 of their descendants, across their entire lives. The single strongest predictor of long-term wellbeing, he…
The Arrival Fallacy
The arrival fallacy is the belief that reaching a specific goal, milestone, or life threshold will deliver lasting satisfaction. It won't — and five decades of psychology, 85 years of lon…
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A blog presents finished thoughts. A garden makes room for ideas that are still developing.
This is a place for the messier middle: questions, patterns, lessons, useful fragments and thoughts that may change completely as I learn more.