The Compass.
One letter a week.
For technically trained professionals in research and innovation who know they have something to say — and haven't found the system to say it yet.
One piece of thinking per week
Not a summary of the internet. A specific, owned idea — drawn from lived experience inside EU research ecosystems and 90 days of writing that changed how I work.
Written in my voice, not generated by a tool
If I won't remember writing it in a month, it doesn't go out. Every letter passes the same test I apply to everything I publish.
Written for one kind of reader
The technically trained professional who is privately ambitious, analytically rigorous, and building toward something of their own. If that's not you, this will feel niche. It is.
The open secrets no one says out loud
Grant-chasing. AI use nobody admits to. The silence norm that your professional culture enforces and you've internalised without ever deciding to.
The post you wrote last Tuesday.
The one you don't remember.
You opened an AI tool. You typed a prompt. It gave you something technically correct. You read it, decided it was fine, and posted it.
Three weeks later you can't remember what it said. Neither can anyone who read it. The fact that you don't remember is not a symptom of a bad memory. It's a signal about ownership.
The difference between invisible and visible is not talent. It is not confidence. It is a voice you can trace back to a single lived moment.