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.
The Architecture of Attention: Debugging the Dopamine Loop
A neurodivergent product architect learns that the hardest part of focus isn’t ignition — it’s recovery. The Architecture of Attention explores what happens when brilliance burns too bright and how to rebuild presence without dimming it.
Retrospective Facilitation: Turning Reflection into Momentum
A structured method for guiding Agile teams through reflective sessions that uncover insights, improve processes, and strengthen trust without blame.
The Measurement Cluster: weaponised metrics
When progress becomes performance theatre, productivity collapses under its own applause. This piece examines how linguistic inflation and measurement overload fracture focus — and how clarity restores traction.
Attention Restoration Theory: Reclaiming focus through nature
Exposure to natural environments restores cognitive focus depleted by overstimulation. Nature enables effortless attention, replenishing mental capacity and improving overall wellbeing.
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.
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.
Emotional Regulation in ADHD: Feeling ≠ Failing
Emotional regulation in ADHD is the challenge of managing emotional intensity and recovery time. It reframes “overreaction” as a neurological lag, highlighting skill-building as a path to resilience and self-trust.
Eisenhower Matrix: Urgent vs. Important
A 2×2 prioritisation grid dividing tasks by urgency and importance to guide whether to do, decide, delegate, or delete — a compass for balancing reactive work with strategic focus.