6 min · Paul Burns & Rikki Lear · 17 September 2026
Capability is not performance
What changes when we stop treating one result as a complete account of the person?
Insights
Ideas worth testing.
Concise essays on capability, conditions, expression and the discipline of diagnosing before prescribing.
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7 min · Paul Burns & Rikki Lear · 17 September 2026
What sits beneath the waterline?
A diagram can organise better questions without pretending hidden causes are directly observable.
6 min · Paul Burns & Rikki Lear · 17 September 2026
Why diagnosis should come before development
Training is useful when capability is missing. It is wasteful when the constraint sits elsewhere.
5 min · Paul Burns & Rikki Lear · 17 September 2026
Pressure is not a truth machine
A consequential moment reveals a performance under conditions—not an unfiltered inventory of character.
7 min · Paul Burns & Rikki Lear · 17 September 2026
When the system becomes the constraint
Sometimes the person is carrying the visible symptom of a badly configured environment.