Digital garden
This digital garden is where I share reflections, sowing seeds of thought that can be cultivated and nutured into fruitful structured writing.
Inspired by Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Maggie Appleton and others, this is not a chronological blog but an evergreen place where ideas can be edited and refined.
It is better to work in the open and be comfortable with iterative progress than wait for the big reveal...
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Clean, pure and simple #code
Functional react with hooks
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Why I don't hate TypeScript (anymore) #code
The two reasons that TypeScript is winning me over
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Don't just coach — manage #self-management
How to help others depending on where they are
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Influence #self-management
How to win minds and convince people
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Listen out for adverbs #self-management
A user research tip
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Making your mind up #self-management
Making sound decisions using mental models
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Reading non-fiction #self-management
Treat non-fiction books differently
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Short-term pain for long-term gain #self-management
Overcome your conservation of energy bias
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User experience and UI design #innovation
A comparison
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Accountability #self-management
Do things in your own name
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Ask yourself questions #self-management
Quiz your future self
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Authenticity #self-management
Do things from the heart
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Backcasting #self-management
Begin with the end in mind
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Clarity #self-management
Understand the basics
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Co-design change #self-management
Do things together
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Culture change #self-management
Create things together
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Decisiveness #self-management
Make a decision and move on
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Effective meetings #self-management
Two things that make a difference after every meeting
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Goal setting and getting #self-management
How to get good at goal getting
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Growth loops #self-management
Anti-goal setting
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Growth mindset #self-management
The narratives we tell ourselves
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Implementation intentions #self-management
Prevent your plans being derailed by you
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Opportunity #self-management
Make your own luck
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Build the right thing before you build the thing right #innovation
Why a prototying mindset can derisk investment
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A technique for overcoming procrastination #self-management
And why we prioritise other things instead
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Developing Charisma #self-management
A list of tactics you can practice to develop charisma
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Engage readers with hooks, promises and payoffs #self-management
Turning insight into an engaging read
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Dopamine — this changes everything #self-management
How dopamine rules your life and what you need to do to change
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Interstitial journalling #self-management
Mindfully journalling throughout the day
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Technical Discovery Canvas #innovation
A visual guide to a process for derisking investment in technology.
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Metacognition, learning and me #self-management
The science of thinking about thinking
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Be the change you wish to see in yourself #self-management
How to set goals and achieve them
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Taking notes to the next level #self-management
Using a digital garden for cultivating wisdom