Notes from the practice
Field notes on career readiness, credentialing, distributed work, and the governance of technology inside educational institutions.
The Credential Nobody Requires
On the quiet contradiction at the heart of career readiness programs.
Read the field note →- 01October 2026Research
Vygotsky Did Not Draw the Triangle
The figure everyone attributes to him is a later redrawing. What he actually claimed was narrower, sharper, and easier to be wrong about.
6 min read - 02September 2026Research
Leont'ev's Hierarchy Is Not a Triangle
Activity, action, operation — three levels, not three corners. The conflation costs you the one distinction that makes the model diagnostic.
6 min read - 03September 2026Research
The Second Triangle Is the Whole Point
Third-generation analyses draw two activity systems and then analyse one. The shared object is a hypothesis, not a given — and it is usually the finding.
7 min read - 04August 2026Research
Reading a Career Readiness Program as an Activity System
On identifying the parts before you evaluate the whole.
9 min read - 05August 2026Research
A Change Laboratory That Cannot Fail Is Not a Change Laboratory
The one commitment that separates a formative intervention from a well-catered workshop.
10 min read - 06July 2026Research
The Triangle Is an Argument, Not a Picture
How to read the generations of activity theory — and why "which one is right" is the wrong question.
9 min read - 07June 2026Research
Contradictions Are Not Problems
And why calling them problems does real damage to the people inside them.
9 min read - 08May 2026Research
The Unit of Analysis Is the Whole Argument
What activity theory actually asks you to do differently.
9 min read - 09February 2026Technology
Cybersecurity Governance for Educational Institutions
Practical governance frameworks for protecting student data and institutional systems on limited budgets.
9 min read - 10January 2026Research
Career Readiness Programs: A CHAT Perspective
How Cultural-Historical Activity Theory frames the design and implementation of career readiness programs in higher education.
10 min read - 11December 2025Research
Distributed Work and Professional Identity Formation
How remote and distributed work environments shape the professional identities of technology workers.
9 min read - 12November 2025Career Development
Building Effective Digital Badge Systems
Best practices for designing micro-credential systems that genuinely support student career readiness.
8 min read - 13October 2025Technology
AWS Academy: Pathways to Cloud Careers
Strategies for integrating cloud computing certifications into academic programs.
8 min read - 14September 2025Education
The Future of Experiential Learning
Reimagining internships and work-based learning in a post-pandemic higher education landscape.
9 min read - 15August 2025Research
Verification Is Not Proofreading
Checking whether a source is what you think it is and checking whether a sentence says what you meant are different jobs. These are the tools I use for both, and the order I use them in.
4 min read - 16July 2025Research
Provenance Is the Product
Five research tools I actually use. Each one costs something small now and pays it back the first time someone asks where a claim came from.
5 min read