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Our mission:
Enable technical practitioners to achieve and maintain mastery of a long-lasting knowledge work practice.
One that is highly adaptive and which consistently harnesses the evolving capability of digital tools.
Our Community:
Independent, we are for engineers and technical specialists:
- Analysts
- Consultants
- Engineers (All disciplines)
- Experts
- Leaders and Managers of technical knowledge practitioners
- Anyone who is doing technical work and needs to improve
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Technical Gains is YOUR Newsletter.
Better technical knowledge practice in 3 minutes.
✅Rethink performance.
✅Rethink knowledge work.
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I am a technical practitioner.
I want to help other technical practitioners.
I want you to realise your potential - without burning out.
If, you are short on time
hungry to learn
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What's Inside:
A 3-minute reset for your practice.
Curated content bringing you the best from research on the topics of:
🤖 Digital Tooling - the selection, use and maintenance of digital tools for your technical knowledge practice
🏃Better, healthy performance for people.
📚Knowledge management and know-how to work well with AI.
Designed to enable you to:
Work better.
Think better.
Get better results.
We want this to be the best newsletter your subscribe to,the one you read when it lands in your inbox, the one your refer to when you have a knotty challenge at work, the one that quietly makes small changes and brings your big results.
We've made it super affordable, even if we take a hit to get it started. But don't underestimate the research that is going into this. And...the bigger the community the more, deeper research we can do.
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- Emerging insights on the topics in AI, performance and knowledge systems.
- Practical steps to get started.
- More to come as the community grows and we develop.
Who's behind Technical Gains?
I'm Richard Waine. I have 15 years of experience in the energy sector working as a technical practitioner and leading small teams of practitioners.
I'm curious about know-how and how to master a healthy technical knowledge practice. Over the past 5 years, I've been researching, testing and personally developing my own technical knowledge practice.
What started as a curiosity has turned into a mission to help technical knowledge workers solve critical problems well. Creating value for society, organisations, and choices for individuals around a work-life balance.
To that end, I started Emlyn Square to provide services and this newsletter Technical Gains to build a community, specifically for the technical people who do the work and make the decisions that underpin our society.

I look forward to working with you.