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Short pieces about why help centres go unread, why members go quiet, and why most spaces called communities are really channels. Written from the work, not from a content calendar.

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  • Knowledge

    Why people stop reading your help centre

    August 2026

    A help centre rarely fails because the articles are badly written. It fails because it was built to describe the product rather than to answer the question the customer arrived with.

  • Membership

    The quiet month before a member leaves

    August 2026

    Most cancellations are not decisions. They are the moment somebody finally gets round to acting on something that stopped being true weeks earlier.

  • Community

    A community is not a channel

    August 2026

    In a channel, the organisation talks and the audience receives. In a community, members talk to each other. Most spaces described as communities fail that test.

  • Philosophy

    Building systems that serve people

    February 2026

    Where Live Well, Build Well came from, and what it means when it is applied to a piece of software rather than a poster on a wall.

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