All the Rubble 🪨
Thoughts, ideas and musings on learning & beyond
My 12 Favourite Problems
Twelve problems I can’t stop thinking about - from careers and curiosity to better learning, braver organisations and AI-native businesses.
Cultivating Curiosity
Most organisations want curious people. Few make room for curiosity to actually happen. Here's why that's a problem - and what it takes to change it.
L&D has a Learning Problem
Most L&D teams have no budget, time or plan for their own development. Why that's structural, and the three things the best L&D leaders are doing about it.
Build the Couch Before You Buy the Throw Pillows
What to invest time and money in doing, and how to support yourself while you do.
The Gorilla in the Driver's Seat
AI feels like it's grabbed the wheel of your career. It hasn't - it's just loud. Three questions to ask yourself before you hand over the driver's seat.
🛳️ L&D Overboard
3 things L&D needs to let go of and 3 things they need to embrace instead.
The Unautomatables
Everyone is running AI training that teaches people to use the tool. Almost none of it teaches them when to stop trusting it. Six skills that get more valuable as AI gets better, not less.
Imagination Is a Muscle
Imagination isn't talent. It's a muscle and most of us have let ours go soft. Some questions I'm sitting with on how to build it back up, for myself and for the teams and orgs I work with.
Nobody knows where L&D is headed
The teams treating that as an experiment, not a problem to solve, are the ones worth watching.
What do you want AI to leave for you?
Three tensions every L&D professional needs to sit with.
Future L&Ds are Gardeners
Future learning designers won't make people grow. Like gardeners, they'll build the conditions that let growth happen.
Which Mode Is Your Learning Team Stuck In?
Four modes most learning teams run in, why three of them start with the wrong question, and what actually decides which one your team is stuck in.
Why I'm Still a Learning Designer After 10 Years
With AI changing everything, people keep asking where I see myself going. My answer hasn't changed. Here's why learning designers aren't going anywhere.
The Cost of Not Learning
Every organisation tracks what they spend on L&D. Nobody tracks what they spend on people who can't do their jobs.
L&Ds: Inspiring people is not your job. 🙅
Why L&Ds need to stop inspiring people and what they need to do instead!
Learners aren't the problem. We are.
There is a complaint I constantly hear from L&D teams: “Learners just aren't motivated anymore.”
Building a training is like building a campfire
You need kindling before logs. You need spark before it catches fire. Most training skips straight to the logs.
