Writing
Most of this started as coaching notes — attempts to work out why what I'd been taught to do didn't work, and why the things that worked weren't taught.
Does AI build expertise, or quietly erode it?
A research review: the evidence on both sides, and the variable that actually decides it.
Why We Choke and How to Avoid It
A video essay on choking as information overload — why pressure makes competent people unpick the very skills that were working, and four practical counters.
How To Build A High-Performing Team
A book, published in 2023, on the one move that separates high-performing teams from dependent ones: the leader dissociating from day-to-day operations. Five steps, grounded in eighteen years of coaching and in motivation science.
The coaching and performance essays
Two dozen essays and scripts, published in 2023, on coaching technique, pattern compression, body language and cortisol, motivation and rewards, and why drills don't transfer to race day.