How to Build a Career Without Burning Out
Burnout is now recognized by the WHO as an occupational phenomenon. Understanding what it actually is — and what the evidence says prevents it — is different from the generic "take more breaks" advice that…
Wax Paper Yellow: The Soft Neutral That Is Quietly Taking Over Fashion
I kept seeing this colour everywhere before I could name it. On Instagram, in shop windows, in the background of editorial shoots — a yellow that wasn't quite yellow. Too warm to be cream, too…
The Rise of the “Menopause Moonshot”: What Science Is Learning About Ovarian Aging
Menopause research has historically been underfunded relative to the number of people it affects. That's beginning to change. Here's what the recent science is actually finding. For most of medical history, menopause was treated as…
How to Price Your Work Confidently and Stop Undercharging
Pricing is the single most leveraged decision in any business — a one percent improvement in price realisation typically produces a three to five percent improvement in operating profit, which is a more powerful lever…
What Is a Fractional Executive. Does Your Business Actually Need One?
A founder I spoke with recently described hiring their first fractional CFO as "the smartest thing I didn't know I needed." Her company had grown past the point where spreadsheets and intuition were adequate for…
The Real State of Edge AI: How Distributed Intelligence Is Advancing
There's a tension at the heart of edge computing that has never been fully resolved. The closer you push intelligence to the physical world — to sensors in factories, cameras on roads, devices in hospitals…
Small Business Growth Strategies That Actually Work
The growth strategy advice available to small business owners is abundant and mostly useless. Not because it's wrong in principle — most of it is directionally correct — but because it's generic to the point…
Biometric Wearables: How Health Tracking Technology Actually Works
The digital twin concept in industrial engineering is relatively well-understood: a virtual model of a physical object or system that updates in real time based on sensor data from the real counterpart, allowing engineers to…
Neurofeedback Therapy: What the Science Actually Says
⚕️ Medical note: Neurofeedback is a therapeutic intervention that should be conducted by a licensed clinician. This article is for informational purposes only. A colleague told me she'd been doing neurofeedback for her anxiety, and…
Decentralized Business Models: What DAOs and Distributed Companies Actually Are
The language around decentralised organisations is heavily influenced by crypto culture, which means it often comes pre-loaded with either messianic enthusiasm or reflexive scepticism, neither of which is particularly useful for understanding what's actually happening.…