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December 5, 2025
The Exit Interview: Leaving Well Is a Career Skill
The last impression is the lasting one. Give useful feedback, ask mirror questions, complete the handover, and leave the door open.
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November 21, 2025
The 10,000-Hour Trap: Deliberate Practice vs. Grinding
The hours are the container, not the content. Grinding repeats what is known. Deliberate practice attacks what is not, at the edge, with feedback.
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November 7, 2025
Radical Ownership: Teams That Blame Nothing Fix Everything
It is not my job is the sound of the vacuum. The team that owns everything, fault or not, has the licence to fix everything. Blame nothing.
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October 24, 2025
Conflict Is Data: Reading the Signals Before They Become Fires
The eruption is never sudden. The shorter emails, the skipped meetings, the silence: the signals were the data, and the data was ignored until the fire.
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October 10, 2025
The Meeting-Free Day: Reclaiming a Day a Week
The most expensive unit of work is the room of salaries. Protect one day a week, and the thinking that the calendar had no room for finally happens.
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September 26, 2025
Psychological Safety Is a System, Not a Mood
The declaration changes nothing. The system changes everything: behaviours, incentives, failure culture. The safe team argues loudly and learns fast.
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September 12, 2025
Leading with Questions: The Coach's Approach to Management
The answer trap pulls every new manager. The way out is the oldest coaching trick: answer a question with a question, and build the answerer.
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August 29, 2025
The Maintenance Mindset: Why Reliability Is an Engineering Discipline
The hero saves the day. The engineer makes the hero unnecessary. Reliability is the dividend on maintenance discipline, not a budget line.
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August 15, 2025
Passivhaus: Building So Good It Barely Needs Heating
Not magic, physics: insulation, airtightness, heat recovery. The building that is itself the heating system, using 75 percent less energy.
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August 1, 2025
The Energy Trilemma: Cost, Carbon, and Security
Cheap, clean, secure: pick two. The trilemma has no final answer, only the endless rebalancing, and the meta-skill is the capacity to rebalance.
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