Red Lines in Blue Ink: The Systemic Cost of Ruling by Rhetoric
When a government starts borrowing the language of its opponents, it doesn’t just change how it speaks — it changes what it sees. This piece examines how political rhetoric can quietly rewrite purpose, distort priorities, and weaken trust, revealing the hidden cost when systems start ruling by story instead of by substance.
Warrior vs Worrier: The difference between hope and proof
When your inner world runs on possibility and the people you love live in the land of proof, even the simplest conversation can become a negotiation. This is the quiet tension between the warrior who dreams and the worrier who carries the weight — and how masking, momentum, and misalignment turn everyday moments into behavioural crossroads.
Prompt Theatre: The Ethics of Drift
When visibility becomes validation, systems reward performance over purpose. The Ethics of Drift explores how automation, culture, and metrics reshape meaning — and how to reclaim authorship, balance, and intent in the age of generative AI.
The Rhetoric Virus: Why Systems Reward Certainty Over Substance
Confidence has become a contagion. Systems now reward certainty over truth, amplifying fluency while silencing doubt. This piece traces how the rhetoric virus spreads — through authority, metrics, and performance — and how we can rebuild cultural immunity through curiosity.
The UX of Competence: How Performance becomes the Product
Trust is fragile, but loyalty is blind. Every system built on human judgement eventually drifts from substance toward spectacle. In a world where visibility has become the new validity, we’re performing credibility rather than practising it.
Reward Undermining Effect: The Paradox of Motivation
External rewards can unintentionally reduce intrinsic motivation. The reward undermining effect shows how over-justifying effort with incentives shifts focus from enjoyment to obligation.
Authorship, Autonomy, and the Algorithm
A reflection on how fear shapes our response to new tools — from calculators to ChatGPT — and how embracing collaboration between human and machine can redefine creativity, authorship, and ethical progress.
Fearless Feedback Model: From Caution to Constructive Growth
A structured feedback framework that turns fear into growth by balancing appreciation with actionable improvement, building trust, and embedding feedback into everyday culture.
Empathy Mapping: Visualising the User Mindset
A collaborative framework that visualises what users say, think, do, and feel to build shared understanding and design empathy-led experiences.
My brain is not a buzzword
After years of engineering my own focus systems, I finally have an official label for the mind that built them. ADHD hasn’t changed who I am — it’s simply given my methods a name. This piece is about ownership, not confession: how to hold a label without being held by it.