Short notes
on doing.
Thinking in progress. Short-form pieces on The Gap, leadership, business, life and behavior — original pieces written here, alongside notes published on Substack.
Life
Loved, Supported, and Still Lonely: The Part of Having a Vision I’m Learning to Explain
A friend’s simple check-in made me pause. On feeling loved and supported while still feeling alone with the ideas, questions, and vision in my head.
Oct 13, 2026
Note
Do You Really Feel That Bad? (opens in a new tab)
One summer I was on vacation with family and friends. Good week. Sun, too much food, too much drink, the kind of trip where everyone forgets their real life for a few days. The conversation was great…
Aug 16, 2026
Thinking, filed as it happens.
The Notebook is where Coach Key writes between sessions. It is not a blog in the marketing sense — there is no content calendar and nothing here exists to rank for a keyword. These are the observations that repeat often enough across coaching conversations, keynote rooms and leadership teams that they are worth writing down once, plainly, so they can be pointed at later.
You’ll find notes published on Substack (opens in a new tab) and mirrored here; some are original pieces written for this site. Each one follows the same shape: a line most people recognise immediately, then the read on why it happens, then something you can actually do. Short on purpose. If a note needs three thousand words to be useful, it becomes a keynote or a chapter instead.
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