Atomic Essays

Perfectionism is a hell of a thing. It’s a thing that all too often stops good ideas from flourishing into something amazing because we’re too scared to just get started. We tell ourselves that I’m not good at this thing, and if it’s not perfect, then it’s not worth making . But that’s not true. Imagine if the Rolling Stones recorded their first song and thought oof, that sucks . They would have dropped the guitars and that’d be the end of it. They wouldn’t have gone on to cr

For the whole of 2025, I wanted to write more. And, for the most part, I achieved this. But the thing about writing is that once it’s written, if you don’t have anywhere to publish it, the project you spent so much time on can just sit on a hard drive, gathering digital dust. This is why, in 2026, I’m challenging myself to write one Atomic Essay per week and publish them on LinkedIn and my blog – as well as Substack. Plus, on Substack , the goal is to publish one full-length