Cultural Bug Report: Fixing How We Work Together
We’ve mistaken motion for meaning and noise for progress. This article files a cultural bug report on the modern workplace — exposing how distraction became the default operating system and how clarity can fix it.
Flow Theory: The Psychology of Engagement
Flow Theory explains how people achieve deep focus and satisfaction when challenges perfectly match their skills. It’s a state where attention, purpose, and performance merge into effortless control and enjoyment.
Deep Work: The Discipline of Focus
Cal Newport’s Deep Work champions focused, undistracted concentration as a rare and valuable skill — transforming attention into a discipline that drives mastery and meaningful achievement.
WIP Limits: Constrain flow | Increase throughput
WIP Limits cap active work to maintain flow and reveal bottlenecks. By constraining multitasking, teams deliver faster, more predictably, and with less stress.
Cybernetic Feedback Loops: The Logic of Self-Regulation
Cybernetic feedback loops describe how systems sense, compare, and adjust their behaviour to maintain stability or pursue goals — the foundation of control, adaptation, and systemic intelligence.
Executive Function Theory: The Architecture of Self-Regulation
Explains how executive functions enable focus, planning, and self-control — the mental framework that converts thought into action and maintains adaptive balance under pressure.
Manual of Me: Operating Instructions for Collaboration
A living self-manual that codifies how you think, work, and communicate — transforming introspection into a collaborative operating system that builds empathy and trust.
The Behavioural Paradox of Enforced Virtue
Corporate values were meant to unite teams — but when virtue becomes performance, language stops listening. This essay dissects how slogans replace substance, and how clarity can rebuild honest feedback loops.
Bento Box Productivity: Do Less, Focus More
A minimalist task-management system that divides your day into three compartments — large, medium, and small — to reduce overwhelm, match energy, and focus on what truly matters.
30-60-90: Value before Permanence
A structured 3-phase framework that delivers value before permanence — enabling teams to learn, test, and prove fit through a time-boxed discovery contract.