Posts Tagged with Island 41 Courses

Learning by Immersion

I would like to acknowledge the support of Antonia Voigt and Tianqi Lu, whose feedback on earlier drafts of this article was very helpful. An edited version was published by BERA in the Spring 2026 … Continue reading

Left Bank Two

When fishermen cannot go to sea, they repair their nets is a well known metaphor regarding productivity during downtime that neatly sums up my Christmas and New Year period. Something that had been nagging me … Continue reading

Just For One Thing

Just For One Thing is a pair of one-hour online coaching sessions, marketed through Eventbrite, that are designed to help you develop or improve just one single thing about your presentation style. Something specific you’d … Continue reading

The Culture Map

Holidaying in Malta some twenty five years ago, I had fallen in with a group of fifteen or so other solitary travellers from various parts of the world. We all did our own thing by … Continue reading

We have all there is

I first noticed this phenomenon about thirty five years ago at Logan Airport in Boston. I had arrived back from London just after Christmas and my onward domestic flight to Maine had been delayed as … Continue reading