I'm an educator, learning designer, mentor, and creative, fascinated by how people learn, make sense of ideas, and communicate what they know. This site is where I write that thinking down while it's still moving — learning science, instructional design, and the habits that make understanding stick.
What you'll find here
Sense-making
Working an idea out in the open — notes, questions, and frameworks that hold up.
Learning & instructional design
Breaking complex ideas into structures a learner can actually hold onto.
Media & storytelling
Where teaching, writing, and production meet — the craft side of making sense.
Latest notes
All notes- What If We’re Testing What Learners Remember Instead of What They Can Actually Do?
How do we design learning that prepares learners for real-world performance by aligning practice, automatic responses, and assessments with the decisions and actions they’ll need to make on the job?.
- Learning Isn’t Complete Until It Shows Up in Action
How the learning loop moves from perceiving information in the environment through attention, working memory, and long-term memory to observable action.
- Good Feedback Doesn’t Just Correct Performance. It Teaches Learners to Correct Themselves.
How meaningful feedback refines declarative knowledge, develops learners’ evaluative judgment, and enables self-correcting practice without continued dependence on external guidance. It also explores why automation alone doesn’t guarantee expertise.
- The Goal of Good Feedback Is to Make Itself Unnecessary
How feedback refines the learner’s declarative knowledge until they can evaluate their own performance and self-correct without depending on an external expert. It explores how instructional design can gradually transfer evaluative judgment from the teacher to the learner.
Recent questions
All questions- What If the Problem Isn’t the Assessment Format?
Whether we’re choosing assessment formats before understanding what learners actually need to retrieve for performance. The core question is: What does the performance require the learner to do?