Writing
I write to make sense of things. Here are some thoughts on business strategy and sabbaticals, and a detour in neuroscience at the bottom of the page.
Business
Switch off the autopilot
You’ll be rewarded with calm, structure, clarity — and a strong sense of agency.
Building an irresistible business
Customers remember what’s different, not what’s best. How to take your business out of the market cluster and offer value nobody else does.
Inviting Mother Nature into the boardroom
What if organisations could reconnect with purpose the way Nature does? On calming the collective nervous system and embodying your customer.
It’s not about you
Good communication with an Exec Team isn’t about impressing them with your work. It’s about making their jobs easier and giving them energy.
Sabbaticals
Lost your curiosity? You’re not alone
Years of intense work can bury your curiosity. What to do when nothing outside work sparks your interest any more.
How to make this Big Life Decision
How people go from ‘I’m not sure I should take a sabbatical’ to ‘obviously I’m going’: real stories, and the moment a big decision clicks.
Permission to spend my savings on a sabbatical
I had the savings for a sabbatical, but spending them felt terrifying. Here are the two mental shifts that gave me permission.
Uncovering my one spicy take
Curiosity is a muscle: unused, it atrophies. On making space for curiosity that isn’t ‘useful’, and the one spicy take I found there.
Stop doing for a while
How I got the overachieving doer in me, built over years in corporate and consulting, to stop for a while, and what showed up in the space it left.
8 months into my sabbatical
Eight months into a sabbatical from the corporate world: the shift into embodiment, and the slow move from a scarcity to an abundance mindset.
Neuroscience explorations
Dr Andrew Huberman is a neurobiology professor at Stanford University. He shares research and everyday science-backed tools on his podcast.
Podcasts aren’t my preferred way of learning, and his are long and dense so I took notes to help the information stick. I then had a lot of fun turning those notes into visual summaries so others could get to the good stuff without listening to hours of conversation.
Here are some of those visual summaries. Enjoy!
