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Welcome to the article archive. Here's everything I've written here on the site [almost]. Articles over the years have covered an array of topics, but more recently are related to the psychology of performance and creative expertise. Articles are grouped under these categories.

☕️ So pull up a seat, pour yourself a coffee or two and enjoy a read.

2025 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017

2025 (4)
  • 17/05/25 - Bandura on Selective Moral Disengagement
  • 11/05/25 - Sunday Letters: Welcome Back
  • 04/05/25 - Annie Dillard on Time, Structure, Coffee, & Learning A Trade
  • 02/05/25 - Albert Einstein on The Need For A Socialist Economy
2023 (20)
  • 14/12/23 - Wellington Street
  • 03/12/23 - The Problem With Society
  • 27/11/23 - Intelligence: You Either Have It, Or You Don't
  • 14/11/23 - Cursed With A Brain
  • 27/04/23 - Like A Church
  • 26/04/23 - Less Is More?
  • 25/04/23 - Get To Work
  • 13/04/23 - The Coffee Man
  • 10/04/23 - The Machine
  • 09/04/23 - Is Work Good For Us?
  • 07/04/23 - Data vs Feelings
  • 06/04/23 - Becoming Magnolia
  • 29/03/23 - Does Anyone Really Love Anyone Else?
  • 20/03/23 - A Metaphor For Life & Work
  • 09/03/23 - The Pint
  • 26/02/23 - A Monday to Friday Sort of Dying
  • 29/01/23 - What It Takes To Survive
  • 16/01/23 - Gimme Full Fat
  • 08/01/23 - One Day Soon, You Won't Be Here
  • 02/01/23 - Another Year Over, So What Now?
2022 (18)
  • 09/12/22 - Icy Morning
  • 08/12/22 - Sunday Letters Gift Ideas
  • 04/12/22 - Never Enough Time
  • 20/11/22 - A US Air Force Pilot on The Meaning of Work
  • 10/10/22 - Reality
  • 07/10/22 - Wage Slavery & The Fundamental Problem with The Workplace
  • 30/09/22 - It's Autumn, Thank God
  • 20/09/22 - Sunday Letters Merchandise
  • 13/09/22 - What do you think?
  • 12/09/22 - Introduction To Peak Human Performance
  • 07/09/22 - [Bonus] Beyond An Economy of Work & Spend
  • 06/09/22 - On The Merit of Doing Nothing
  • 31/08/22 - Bukowski on Work
  • 29/08/22 - You Abstract Working Mule of A Human
  • 25/08/22 - The Magic of Donald Thomas
  • 21/08/22 - Talent: You Either Have It Or You Don't
  • 18/08/22 - What work do you do?
  • 17/08/22 - Dr Jonathan Murphy on Free Speech, Psychology, Future of Work, AI, & Identity
2021 (6)
  • 28/11/21 - How To Be An Optimist
  • 21/11/21 - Bertrand Russell: Happiness & Unhappiness
  • 31/10/21 - Oíche Shamhna
  • 24/10/21 - Longtermism: Something You Should Know About
  • 03/10/21 - How To Turn Off A Humming Fridge
  • 21/02/21 - Cyclical Time
2020 (63)
  • 14/12/20 - Making For Its Own Sake Versus Making For Success
  • 05/11/20 - Business or Vocation?
  • 18/10/20 - The Pursuit of Happiness Part 3: Nine Factors That Impact Your Happiness
  • 13/10/20 - More Time For What?
  • 04/10/20 - The Pursuit of Happiness Part 2: The Focusing Illusion
  • 01/10/20 - On Mortality
  • 28/09/20 - The Fool
  • 27/09/20 - The Pursuit of Happiness Part 1
  • 20/09/20 - Have We Mistaken A Shiny Penny For The Sun?
  • 13/09/20 - Scepticism: An Antidote To The Dangers of Groupthink
  • 11/09/20 - How To Be Resilient
  • 09/09/20 - Bide Your Time
  • 06/09/20 - On Becoming The Performatist
  • 04/09/20 - On The Edge of The World
  • 27/08/20 - The More Real
  • 24/08/20 - Too Much of A Good Thing
  • 23/08/20 - Carl Rogers on The Resolution of Internal Conflict
  • 16/08/20 - Whitehead: The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness
  • 09/08/20 - Taking Score Too Soon
  • 26/07/20 - On The Merits of Introversion
  • 12/07/20 - On The Slavery of Work
  • 07/06/20 - Building Resilience In Turbulent Times
  • 01/06/20 - The Hidden Benefit In Boring
  • 29/05/20 - Momentum: Help Or Hindrance?
  • 24/05/20 - Creative Polymathy In The Life of The Everyday Genius
  • 21/05/20 - What Is Randomness?
  • 17/05/20 - A Word On Performance
  • 12/05/20 - Work For Yourself
  • 10/05/20 - The 7 Properties of Play
  • 08/05/20 - It's Not Such A Big Deal
  • 07/05/20 - When Sitting With A Problem…
  • 05/05/20 - The Sword Upon Which You'll Fall
  • 04/05/20 - There Is No Point In Work, Unless…
  • 03/05/20 - Maslow: How To Resolve The Creative Dichotomy
  • 29/04/20 - Move Closer To The Centre
  • 27/04/20 - Try Many Things
  • 26/04/20 - Is It Any of My Business?
  • 24/04/20 - Build A New Skill
  • 23/04/20 - A Return to Craft Based Work
  • 22/04/20 - All of A Sudden You're There
  • 19/04/20 - 7 Life Lessons From The Diary of a Stoic Philosopher
  • 16/04/20 - Chomsky on Controlling Your Own Work
  • 15/04/20 - How Quiet It Has Become
  • 13/04/20 - Enjoying Work For Its Own Sake
  • 12/04/20 - The Anti-Business Model
  • 10/04/20 - The Making of Machines
  • 09/04/20 - A Time To Fight
  • 08/04/20 - To Be A Mule
  • 07/04/20 - The Pursuit of The Eternally Elusive
  • 06/04/20 - Hyper-Positivity And The Flourishing of Naivety
  • 05/04/20 - What's The Future of Work?
  • 03/04/20 - There Are No Shortcuts
  • 02/04/20 - A Monday to Friday Sort of Dying
  • 01/04/20 - The Arrogance of Fools
  • 31/03/20 - Knuckle Down
  • 30/03/20 - Leave The Door Open…
  • 29/03/20 - Georgia O'Keeffe on Daily Work, Happiness & Success
  • 27/03/20 - The Value In Doing Nothing
  • 26/03/20 - It Gets Better
  • 22/03/20 - Coronavirus: The Human Game Has Irrevocably Changed
  • 18/03/20 - Things You Can Do In A Crisis
  • 14/03/20 - How To Create A Genius
  • 12/03/20 - How Do You Really Feel About Work?
2019 (13)
  • 19/10/19 - Darkness Descends
  • 08/09/19 - The Courage To Go Where There Is No One
  • 14/07/19 - Maslow's 16 Aspects of Peak Experience
  • 04/07/19 - The Illusion of Free Will
  • 23/06/19 - Why Do We Work Jobs We Hate?
  • 02/06/19 - What's The Meaning Of Life?
  • 19/05/19 - How To Make Rational Decisions
  • 13/05/19 - Analogical Thinking: A Method For Solving Problems
  • 06/05/19 - The 22 Self Disciplines of Buckminster Fuller
  • 03/02/19 - Going Narrow And Deep
  • 30/01/19 - Creativity Happens When…
  • 13/01/19 - Letting It Happen
  • 07/01/19 - Too Much Data
2018 (36)
  • 24/12/18 - Creative Isolation
  • 07/10/18 - What Is An Artist?
  • 30/09/18 - How To Create Order From Chaos
  • 23/09/18 - The Creative Self: Who Is Doing The Making?
  • 16/09/18 - The Paradox of Work
  • 02/09/18 - Time To Quit
  • 26/08/18 - Saying Sorry: When Nothing Is Gained From Apologies
  • 19/08/18 - Artistic Temperament And The Challenge Working With Others
  • 12/08/18 - Does It Make You Happy?
  • 30/07/18 - Eddie Doherty, Handweaver
  • 22/07/18 - Success Hacks: The Folly In Following Shortcuts
  • 15/07/18 - What To Do When Creative Ideas Overwhelm
  • 08/07/18 - Engineering Consent, Eating Paleo & The New Studio
  • 24/06/18 - State of Flow & Expert Performance
  • 17/06/18 - The Timeless Creative Mind
  • 20/05/18 - The Power Of Deliberate Practice
  • 15/04/18 - Spontaneous Laughter
  • 08/04/18 - Finding Time For Self In The Elaborate Game
  • 25/03/18 - In Defense Of The Unambitious
  • 18/03/18 - Effects Of Stress On Creativity
  • 04/03/18 - Are You Doing It For The Money?
  • 25/02/18 - Challenging Authority: The Creative Imperative
  • 24/02/18 - The New Religion & The Righteous Menace
  • 23/02/18 - The Mere Exposure Effect: Do We Have Control Over Our Descisions?
  • 21/02/18 - Mentorship And Advice: Is there A Difference?
  • 20/02/18 - Reversing The Momentum
  • 18/02/18 - The Merit In Playing The Long Game
  • 16/02/18 - Why The Butcher Shop Closed
  • 15/02/18 - How To Boost Creativity: 10 Creativity Books You Should Read
  • 14/02/18 - The Inadequacy Of The Words
  • 12/02/18 - Exchanging Art For Cash
  • 11/02/18 - The Wisdom Of A Practical Man
  • 10/02/18 - Creatures Of Habit
  • 08/02/18 - Is It Worth The Sacrifice?
  • 07/02/18 - My Biggest Challenge
  • 07/01/18 - Imelda May Portrait: An Inside Look
2017 (6)
  • 24/12/17 - Sunday Letters Christmas Eve
  • 10/12/17 - Parent Child Relationship: What Is Its True Purpose?
  • 03/12/17 - Have You Ever Failed?
  • 01/12/17 - There Is No Time
  • 18/06/17 - Why The Construction Industry Is A Toxic Place To Work
  • 01/05/17 - Does Time Exist?
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