The Rise of Productivity Vibe-Coding
AI hasn’t just automated work — it’s automated the appearance of competence. When busyness becomes proof of progress, clarity becomes rebellion.
Rosenberg: Non-violent Communication
A communication philosophy by Marshall Rosenberg that replaces blame and coercion with empathy and clarity by focusing on observations, feelings, needs, and respectful requests.
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.
Prompt Engineering Ethics
Prompt Engineering Ethics defines the moral boundaries of human–AI interaction — ensuring that intent, bias, and responsibility are consciously designed into every prompt.
Applause Without Alignment: The Cost of Performative Clarity
Product and UX speak the same language until performance gets in the way. When confidence replaces clarity, alignment turns into theatre — and trust becomes the first casualty.
Discipline and Punish: Surveillance, Power, and Control
Foucault’s analysis of modern institutions shows how surveillance and discipline create compliance, revealing hidden logics of power that shape everyday behaviour.
Psychological Safety: Team climate & permission to diverge
Psychological Safety is a team climate framework that defines the conditions for interpersonal risk-taking — enabling candour, dissent, and learning without fear of ridicule or punishment.
Aristotle’s Rhetorical Triangle: Balancing logic, emotion & credibility
A foundational communication framework mapping three persuasive appeals — ethos, pathos & logos — showing how credibility, emotion & logic interact to shape trust and influence.
The Politics of Productivity: Balancing Motion and Momentum
Every false step in the name of progress steals real time.
We live in a rigged productivity economy—targets up, morale down—where motion is mistaken for momentum. You’re not calling for revolution; you’re learning how to win back agency inside the machine.
The Meeting Maze: Time, Belonging, Agency
Workplace rules that look tidy on paper often disable in practice. The Meeting Maze shows how time traps, conditional belonging, and misallocated power erode clarity — and how ADHD perspectives can expose the path to redesign.