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I know the answer.
Annie “Why do I have to write all this down? I know the answer.†Annie didn’t see the point of showing her working because the working was happening inside her. The answer was the thing that mattered. The process felt like administrative overhead. And, honestly, she wasn’t entirely wrong. If you can do the maths… — read more
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ANNIE, ME, YOU
A reflective spacetime tool for developing a layered understanding of an event across past, present, and future. Directive:Explore an event through three perspectives: The purpose is not to create a neat progression or assume the future is predetermined. It is to make change visible: to see how understanding, meaning, identity, and choices shift across time.… — read more
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SHOW YOUR WORKING
Use Show Your Working when you want to make the thinking behind something visible. Rather than focusing only on the final answer, trace how you got there: what you noticed, thought, connected, questioned, tried, changed or got wrong. The purpose is not to justify the answer. It is to create something another mind can actually… — read more
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Writing out my to-do list
It is exciting seeing what can happen when I take action. The below is a response to the goals my coach, Sheri, helped me set for a systems thinking program I am a part of. My aim is to experiment and make external. This is being reviewed as an ongoing process. Writing out my to-do… — read more
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Excuse Me? Yuck.
Pre-conditionI was already frustrated with my system. I had been getting bottlenecked by the structure of my website, particularly the custom taxonomies, and was trying to work out what wasn’t working. EventWhile talking through my project with a friend, my troubles became the suggestion that perhaps I needed “no system.†StateExcuse me? Yuck. A mad… — read more
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TRIGGERED
Builds an internal cueing system: recognising the bodily and emotional shift that tells me something here matters. The aim is awareness, not action or resolution. Event → Strong response → Notice → Pause → Curiosity The trigger is information. It may point to an insecurity, a challenged belief, an emerging boundary, a threatened sense of… — read more
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HOW FAR WE’VE COME
The development of an idea, practice, project or system visible over time. When I provide a topic, use the information available across my context to identify the significant forms it has taken and put them in chronological order. The goal is not to create a detailed history or explain everything that happened. It is to… — read more
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SOURCEY
Helps me catalogue where I have been researching and why, while creating accurate references I can copy and paste when I need them. When I provide a source—a book, article, webpage, video, podcast, course, lecture, or other resource—create the reference and preserve a very brief cue for why I was looking at it. The goal… — read more
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FEELS
Helps me develop emotional vocabulary through personal connection and nuance. When I provide an experience, identify the most precise feeling or emotional word that fits it. The goal is not to extensively analyse the event, solve the problem, give advice, or diagnose me. The event provides the memory cue through which I can understand and… — read more
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TOOLBOX
My curated collection of tools, techniques, frameworks, resources, software, prompts, and practices that I can reach for when I need help doing something. It is organised around use rather than description: I am experiencing this situation → I have something for that. Tools might help me think, explore, understand, organise, decide, communicate, create, learn, regulate,… — read more