Perspectives

Don’t you want to build something better than another event?

Too much of this industry still ships one-time events: a course, a launch, a completion report, and then nothing. I write Perspectives to challenge that habit, question the assumption underneath it, and argue for learning designed like a system people actually live in: with practice, feedback, memory, and evidence built in, not bolted on after launch.

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Find your argument · 20 seconds

What are you wrestling with?

Editorial position

Where I name the argument first.

Every Perspective starts with a problem I recognize from the work, challenges the assumption underneath it, and turns that thinking into a move you can actually use.

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Notice

Find the oversimplified idea: completion as proof, content as coverage, polish as quality, or AI output without judgment.

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Challenge

Question the default shape. Ask whether the real answer is a course, a system, a tool, a workflow, or support in the moment.

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Translate

Turn the argument into a method a working learning designer can actually pick up and use.

Argument library

Read the thinking by problem or lane.

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Perspective lanes

The recurring arguments behind the Lab.

Learning Systems

Learning is not an event. It is a system of practice, feedback, tools, support, and evidence.

Evaluation + Evidence

Measurement works better when it starts before launch, not after the course is already built.

Memory + Behavior

Retention needs retrieval, reinforcement, transfer, and support at the moment of need.

Feedback + Coaching

Feedback should help learners reason, recover, and improve, not just reveal whether they were right.

AI + Design Judgment

AI can accelerate output, but judgment determines whether the learning actually works.

Product-Minded Learning

Learning should be designed with usability, iteration, evidence, and real workflow behavior in mind.

From argument to action

An argument is only useful once you do something with it.

I name the thinking here. Pionati and Synthlet are where you pressure-test it, design the response, and put it to work.

Learning, Rewired · the cadence

Get each new argument the week it’s written.

Learning, Rewired is the LinkedIn newsletter version of this thinking. A newsletter issue can grow into a Perspective, and a Perspective can become a newsletter issue: the same arguments, moving back and forth between the two.

Next issue in the worksNew arguments, roughly every two weeks
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Learning Rewired Lab

Better learning work starts with seeing the problem differently.

Use the thinking to challenge the default, make a stronger decision, and build what the work actually needs.