Tag: writing
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Same Standards, Different Rooms
What three weekends of karate competitions tell us about pathways, culture, and credibility In February, the competitive karate calendar stacked up in a way that sometimes does happen — creating periods of increased pressure and load for athletes, officials, and organisers. Across three consecutive weekends, athletes and officials moved through four very different environments: Cadet,…
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Place Expansion:
Notes on Stewardship from the Ground If you look only at the paperwork, Place Expansion can seem like a set of plans, milestones and reports. If you sit in the work long enough, it feels very different. It feels like conversations in cold parks and along the prom.Like volunteers staying late because they care.Like young…
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I Don’t Use AI to Write. I Use It to Think.
There’s a lazy narrative forming about AI. That it’s for shortcuts.For automation.For replacing thinking. I’ve probably helped shape that narrative myself. I’ve openly challenged shallow, copy-paste uses of AI — especially in community and place-based work where trust, judgement and lived experience actually matter. So there was a slightly ironic moment a few weeks ago.…
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What Are We Actually Trying to Learn?
How Hartlepool Sport is using Test & Learn to shape Place Expansion When people hear “Test & Learn”, it’s easy to picture more sessions, more classes, more programmes. But that isn’t what we’re doing. Because if we simply delivered more activity, we might get busier — but we wouldn’t necessarily get better. For Hartlepool Sport,…
Northern Ambiguity 