12 Jan 2026
Why talk time is a lazy quality metric
Equal airtime can still hide a room that never decided anything. A procurement workshop in Leeds made the point expensive.
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Notes that did not fit inside a module.
These pieces are written for people who already live in rooms. They are not growth-blog summaries of the syllabus.
3 Mar 2026
The quiet minute after a decision
What happens in the sixty seconds after someone names a commitment is more informative than the applause that preceded it.
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19 Apr 2026
Sampling session notes without turning them into surveillance
A practical bound on what you copy out of a shared doc, and why full-text mining is usually a political project in disguise.
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8 Jun 2026
A field guide to facilitation friction
Not every awkward pause is a safety failure. Some of it is a room discovering that the agenda was fiction.
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