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- When Knowledge Meets Action: The “I Can” Knowledge
The difference between knowing something and being able to do something, while exploring how practice develops procedural skills.
- One Experience Can Teach a Pattern, But Multiple Experiences Teach You When It Applies
How our existing concepts, experiences, and event patterns shape what we understand and remember and how they can also mislead us through Overgeneralisation in learning design,
- “I Know” vs. “I Can”: Why Different Knowledge May Need Different Learning Experiences
An introduction to the difference between declarative (“I know”) and procedural (“I can”) knowledge,
- What’s the Point of Saving Knowledge If Learners Can’t Withdraw It?
The gap between having knowledge stored in long-term memory and being able to retrieve and use it in real performance. The core question is: Are we designing learning to store or make knowledge usable
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?