What is Skills Issue.
Skills Issue is a magazine of interactive learning experiences. It publishes games, writing, video, and podcast episodes — all focused on professional skills, decision-making, creative thinking, and how people actually get better at things.
The name is the joke. Someone once said that building this kind of thing was very easy. Skills Issue is the long, considered, slightly over-engineered response to that.
The point of view
Most workplace learning doesn't work — not because the content is wrong, but because it's delivered in formats that don't require people to actually think. Skills Issue is built on the belief that if you want someone to develop a skill, you need to put them in a situation that demands it.
Games do this naturally. A good game makes you make decisions, face consequences, and adapt. A good learning experience should do the same thing — just with something worth learning.
What gets published here
Play — interactive game prototypes, each targeting a real professional skill. Decision-making under pressure, stakeholder management, root cause analysis, reading a room. Things that matter but rarely appear in a course.
Read — writing on learning design, eLearning, and the gap between what people say works and what actually does.
Watch — video essays and design breakdowns. Longer form, more visual.
Listen — conversations and solo episodes. For the commute, if you still do that.
Who makes it
Skills Issue is made by [your name here] — an eLearning designer, developer, and person with opinions about why most of it doesn't work. Based in [location]. Currently building things that make the "it's very easy" crowd uncomfortable.
If you want to get in touch: [your contact method here].