Articles

These are evergreen pieces of writing — not time-bound blog posts. They explore ideas, frameworks, and applications in depth.

Feel free to browse below or start with a particular topic in the resources section.

Recent Articles

• Productive Tension for Personal Productivity — How managing activation states replaces toxic productivity

• GeniusMapping: Making the Invisible Visible — How conscious modeling of unconscious expertise turns 'I just know this' into something that can actually be taught

• The ID/LX Framework — A tiered approach to learning experience design that helps experts create programs which consistently produce results

• NLP: The Foundational Model — Modeling exceptional ability -- the methodology underneath everything else I work with

• The Path of Self Discovery — Using de Bono's color-coded thinking to maintain optimal activation for discovery and decision-making

• Productive Tension: A Map of Human Activation — Understanding the relationship between perceived ability and challenge to predict, describe, and intervene in human behavior

• The ChangeGrid: A Map of Human Experience — Adding engagement to Productive Tension creates a comprehensive map of how human systems behave

• The Octalysis Framework — Motivation, Decoded — Understanding the eight Core Drives and applying Yu-kai Chou's model to learning and business design

• The Learning Loops — Experience as Cycle — How Experiential Learning Theory, 4MAT, VCoLs, and Dynamic Skills Theory work together to create learning that actually changes behavior

These articles are works in progress. I'm sharing them as they develop, not waiting for perfection.