When Agile drifts towards control rather than responsiveness, it is easy to turn Scrum events into performances.
Safe. Polished. Predictable. But quietly useless.
I saw this first-hand when I started as a Scrum Master in a new organisation.
I ran our Sprint Reviews as real conversations, not controlled presentations – and that shift towards openness and responsiveness was genuinely liberating for the team.
Continue reading When agile teams stop performing progress…Getting Things Done (GTD) is often described as a productivity system.
That description is accurate, but it’s also misleading.
One of the reasons people bounce off GTD is that they think it’s about doing more.
More capture.
More lists.
More discipline.
More effort.
But that framing misses the point entirely.
GTD doesn’t reduce work.
It reduces mental strain.
That distinction matters.
Continue reading GTD is not a productivity system – it is cognitive load management
Sundays are my weekly review day – a small ritual that helps me start the new week with clarity rather than chaos. It is simple, gentle and it takes me about 20 to 30 minutes, but it makes a huge difference to how I feel.
Here is what I do…
Continue reading My Sunday weekly review
For the last few years, I have suffered badly from chronic insomnia, so when someone offered me a new duvet from sleep-tech firm Simba in exchange for a review, I jumped at the chance—anything to try to improve my sleep.
I really didn’t expect it to have as large an impact on the quality of my sleep as it has, and in only a few nights. But it has!
Continue reading Simba Hybrid® Duvet review
Last week I returned to a book that I read four years ago, Ultralearning by Scott H Young.
In the book Young outlines an approach he claims can help anyone learn anything deeply and quickly.
With life continuing at such an incredible pace and technology changing all the time, I bought this book hoping that it might give me some insights into how to learn Spanish faster, learn the latest additions to CSS faster, learn… well, anything faster.
Continue reading Book review: Ultralearning by Scott H Young
