Essays from a writing life.
A slower place to read. Selected articles by Wesley on writing, travel, leadership, history, technology, surfing and the quiet reflections in between.
Why I Had to Write Echoes of a Season — And Why I Almost Didn't
There is a strange truth about life: it often takes nearly losing it to truly understand what mattered all along.
Six-Word Memoirs: Small Phrases, Whole Seasons
A short essay on how the smallest sentences can hold entire chapters of a life — from travel and business to quiet moments of recovery.
Memoir Examples: Real Scenes, Simple Structures, Honest Moments
How the strongest memoirs are built from ordinary evenings, particular streets and the people we can still describe by heart.
A Summer on the Costa Brava, Remembered
The small hotels, the harbour lights and the sound of a scooter at midnight. A short travel essay on the coast that inspired Sunshine Seasons.
Leadership Through Change: What Four Decades Taught Me
Notes on building companies through recessions, technology shifts and the quiet moments when leadership really matters.
Surfing and Writing: Two Practices, One Discipline
Why a lifetime spent paddling out at dawn quietly taught me almost everything I know about finishing a book.
The Notebook Habit: Why I Still Write by Hand
Forty years of paper notebooks, and why the slower medium keeps producing the better sentences.
On Solitude, and Why It Is Not Loneliness
A quiet essay on the difference between being alone and being lonely, and why the writing life depends on the first.
The Second Draft: Where the Book Actually Happens
The first draft is a promise. The second draft is the book keeping it.
Andalusian Evenings: The Hour Before Dinner
On flamenco, orange trees, and the particular quality of light that hangs over Seville between seven and nine.
Mallorca in Winter: The Island Nobody Talks About
Empty coves, quiet villages and the version of the island the summer crowds never see.
Hiring Slowly, Firing Kindly
Two of the hardest lessons of four decades in business, and why most companies get both of them wrong.
The Quiet Founder: Building Without a Megaphone
Not every strong company is built by a loud founder. Some of the best ones are built by the person you barely hear from.
The History of a Shutter: A Small Object, A Long Story
How a simple piece of painted wood carries centuries of climate, craft and Mediterranean daily life.
The Lost Cafés of Europe
On the disappearing rooms where writers, exiles and idlers once passed entire afternoons — and what we lose when they close.
Spies and Storytelling: The Cold War as Literary Material
Why the espionage novel remains the great modern form for writing about loyalty, doubt and the private cost of public work.
AI and the Writer: A Tool, Not a Replacement
A working novelist's honest view on generative AI — where it helps, where it flattens, and why the sentence still belongs to you.
The Slow Internet: Rediscovering the Web as a Reading Place
The case for RSS, personal blogs and email newsletters — the quiet parts of the internet where good writing still lives.
The Founder's Second Screen: On Technology and Attention
The single hardest discipline in modern leadership is not strategy. It is the ability to close a laptop.
Cold Water Mornings: A Small Argument for the Sea in Winter
Why a swim before sunrise, in water you would rather not enter, may be the most reliable act of clarity available to a working life.
Reading the Tide: What the Sea Teaches About Timing
The tide does not negotiate. It arrives when it arrives. A short essay on rhythm, patience and the discipline of the working day.