The Insights

Essays, notes & things worth reading.

Long-form essays, short notes, and the occasional curated read, on learning, luck, courage, and building things.

ALL POSTS ESSAYS SHORT NOTES BEST PRACTICES CURATED READS EDUCATION DESIGN
FEATURED EDUCATION

Designing with Courage

In business, an objection like “is this the right time?” is an invitation to dig deeper. In education we take the same words at face value. This essay asks why, and what changes when we stop.

Read essay → 6 min read · 5 Sept 2024
ESSAY

Can You Force Luck?

Life is roughly half chance and half choice. If that’s true, the real question is not whether luck exists, but how much of it you can engineer.

5 min read · 14 Mar 2024
ESSAY

The Art of “What If?”

I reminisce about old decisions and get frustrated about the ones I did not make. This is about using “what if?” as fuel instead of regret.

4 min read · 8 Feb 2024
PERSONAL

Learning Has Always Been Central

From an early age I faced severe dyslexia. That struggle is exactly why learning, and redesigning how we do it, became the thread through everything I build.

6 min read · 21 Nov 2023
BEST PRACTICES

Building a Learning Community at Work

With Sanne Muller of Capgemini Academy, we translated the Professional Learning Community framework into something a professional organisation can actually run.

7 min read · 12 Sept 2023
SHORT NOTE

Making Connections, Enabling Change

The core of almost everything I do comes down to two verbs: connect and enable. A short note on why communities, more than courses, are the real unit of change.

3 min read · 6 Jun 2024