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What Is Learning Agility? Why It’s Critical for Future-Ready Teams
Most training conversations start in the wrong place. They start with content — what do people need to know? What skills need updating? What’s the gap between current state and desired state? These are reasonable questions. They are also, increasingly, the wrong ones. The more useful question — the one that actually determines whether any training investment lands — is this: how well does this team learn? Not what have they learned. How well do they learn, when conditions change, when the map no longer matches the territory, when the thing they knew for certain last year turns out to
3 Foundational Principles for Using LLMs Everyone Can Benefit From
Most people who are disappointed with AI tools are not using the wrong ones. They are using the right ones wrong. That is a meaningful distinction, because the fix is different. If it were a tool problem, the answer would be: switch tools, find a better one, wait for the technology to improve. If it is an interaction problem, the answer is closer at hand than that. These three principles are not about prompt engineering in the technical sense. They go deeper, to the shape of how you engage. Change that shape, and the tools you probably already have start
The Pipeline Test
Quick working-out-loud post. I’ve been setting up a publishing workflow that runs through Claude Cowork. The idea is simple: originate a post inside the Cowork session, have Claude write it directly into my Obsidian vault, and then publish from there using the OMG.lol Publisher plugin. This post is the first test of that pipeline. We confirmed the folder structure — narrative alchemy/Blog Drafts/Drafts/ — and Claude dropped this file straight into it. No copy-paste. No intermediate step. If you’re reading this on the weblog, it worked. The broader point is this: the writing environment, the vault, and the publishing layer
How to Design Learning Experiences That Actually Stick
It’s Monday morning, and you’re sitting in a high-production corporate training session. The slides are polished, the speaker is charismatic, and the coffee is expensive. You nod along, feeling like you’re absorbing every word. But by Thursday, if someone asked you to explain the three core pillars of the strategy presented, you’d likely offer a blank stare. This is the “Forgetting Curve” in action, and in our hyper-distracted 2026 landscape, it has become a cliff. For decades, we approached learning as a delivery problem: If we provide the right content, they will learn. But in an era of infinite information
The Adaptive Leader: How Mastering ‘Colour Energy’ Eliminates the Miscommunication Tax
Why the “Golden Rule” is a Leadership Trap For decades, we’ve been told to follow the Golden Rule: “Treat others as you would like to be treated.” In our personal lives, this is a beautiful sentiment. But in the high-stakes environment of modern leadership, the Golden Rule is actually a trap. It assumes that everyone on your team shares your motivations, your communication style, and your pace. The reality is, they don’t! If you are a high-energy, results-driven leader who loves directness, you likely want to be managed with brevity and “the bottom line.” But if you apply that same style to
When Smart Becomes Cheap: The New Scarcity
Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang recently dropped what some are calling a bomb on the modern education system. His claim? Raw intelligence is about to become worthless. For decades, we’ve operated on a specific formula: High IQ + specialised knowledge + perfect test scores = secure future. We hired the smartest people in the room. We obsessed over credentials. We treated intelligence as the gold standard, the scarce resource that separated winners from everyone else. But Huang is telling us that era is over. AI can now score 100% on tests faster than you can pick up a pencil. It can write
The Dance Between ‘I’ and ‘Me’
The dance between I and Me lives right at the heart of selfhood, it’s the movement between the actor and the mask, the subject and the object, and the experiencer and the experienced. William James started the split: I as the knower, the pure subject of consciousness; Me as the known, the self that can be observed—my body, my history, my reputation, my roles. George Herbert Mead later turned this into a dance floor: I is spontaneous, unpredictable, creative response; Me is the social mirror, the internalised chorus of others telling us who we are supposed to be. So what’s the space between them? It’s not a gap you could drop a
Worldland: categories and images
I'm feeling my way around wordland as a text editor for wordpress. I like the idea. Straight images work. It doesn't look like you can do featured images or tags yet. But i guess this is all in keeping with the minimalist text editor which is designed for writers specifically. I can see me using it as part of my knowledge garden workflow.
trying out wordland
So Dave has created something, which I hope will be useful. I've been searching for an app that will allow me to write in short-form with the possibiliies to expand into long form as my ideas or insight develops. And becasue I am a WordPress user, I want something that works seamlessly with WordPress. So let's see how this works…
Reaching Our Potential
It’s all too common to not fully realise our potential, failing to achieve goals that are well within our talents and abilities. However, understanding the reasons behind this and implementing effective strategies can help us come closer to achieving our full potential. A significant obstacle is often a lack of self-awareness regarding our skills, values, and passions. These are crucial for identifying the most suitable goals and directions to utilise our potential. Without a clear direction, optimising effort and resources becomes challenging. Enhancing self-awareness through methods such as journaling, engaging in discussions with mentors, or taking personal development assessments can
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