Instructional design isn't about making slides look nice. It's about taking a subject matter expert's brain dump and turning it into something a learner can actually use. Strategy first. Visuals second. What's the biggest myth you've heard about instructional design? Dr

I genuinely thought running my own business was going to be easy. I knew everything that was involved. I had the skills. The experience. The background. I was still completely wrong. Wednesday at 8am I am dropping a new essay about social media, overconfidence, and what happens when the al

The jobs report dropped. 172,000 jobs added. Unemployment holding at 4.3%. The numbers sound okay. But if you are a designer, educator, or creative professional right now, you already know the numbers do not tell the whole story. This week I had setbacks. A chemical accident that knocked me d

I wrote the full story on my Substack this week. How I went from graphic designer to instructional designer, the $90 course that started it all, the master's degree I never planned on, and what I figured out about myself along the way. It's honest. It's real. And it might be exactly

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Some resume mistakes have nothing to do with your experience — they're formatting issues that get you filtered out before anyone reads a word. A few rules that matter more than most people realize: One page if you have under 10 years of experience. No tables, no text boxes, no columns — A

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Nobody wants to write a cover letter. And honestly? Most of them deserve to be ignored. The ones that work don't start with "I am writing to express my interest in..." They start with something real — a moment, a memory, a reason this specific company matters to you. The framework

The #1 mistake on most resumes: listing what you were responsible for instead of what you actually did. Hiring managers don't want your job description. They want proof. Try this: every bullet point should follow the CAR formula — Context, Action, Result. Start with a strong verb. End

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75% of resumes are eliminated before a human ever reads them. Not because the person wasn't qualified. Because the formatting confused the software doing the first round of screening. Here's a quick test: paste your resume into Notepad. If it looks garbled, an ATS sees the same thing

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