Posts
All the articles I've posted.
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"True" and "False" Advancement Experience
Revisits a decade-old “true vs false advancement” memo—goal-linked learning vs drift—and loosens the binary into awareness of destination plus flexible focus so detours and missing skills stay intentional, not noise.
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The Cafeteria.
A cafeteria thought experiment—remove hovering monitors and students often self-police—mapped to work as default trust, autonomy, and stretch responsibility seed confidence while micromanagement caps performance.
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My personal leadership philosophy
States a leadership baseline—empower with clear ownership, divide-and-conquer scope, match strengths and interests, ground plans in each person’s values, then layer skills planning before long-range goals.
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Why total "professional transparency" doesn't work – yet.
Uses Getting Real’s definition of transparency as live self-disclosure, then argues radical career openness could accelerate growth yet usually falters on missing context, employer confidentiality, uneven feedback cultures, and misread performance history—while partial honesty about growth areas still beats hiding them until they surface.
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Why values are a key component for success.
Clarifies that naming and ranking core values clarifies career and life choices—citing research that people who work in values alignment tend toward productivity and wellbeing, while chronic mismatch fuels strain.
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Design Sketching.
Brief rave for Erik Olofsson and Klara Sjölen’s Design Sketching—line weight, perspective, and page after page of student work from Sweden’s Umeå Institute of Design.