Welcome to How I Walk, and Talk.
What MotionMic is, what it isn't, and why I'm publishing anyway.
I want to be honest with you before you read anything else on this publication.
MotionMic. is not a finished thing. It’s not a system I’ve perfected and am now generously sharing. It’s not a productivity framework, a neurodiverse self-help brand, or a certified methodology with a pathway and a cohort and a Notion template.
It’s a philosophy in motion. Still forming. Published as it forms — because I’ve come to believe that thinking out loud, accountably and in public, is its own kind of rigour.
What MotionMic actually is
The name comes from a practice: walking, dictating, thinking in motion. Not because I read it in a book about habits, but because it’s the only workflow that has ever actually worked for my brain. I’m a neurodiverse thinker with a lot of overlapping interests, an academic output requirement, two ventures to run, and a genuine belief that the ideas worth having don’t arrive at a desk.
So I walk. I dictate. I refine. I publish.
What you’ll find here is the thinking that emerges from that process — essays, field notes, dispatches, methodological reflections, and the occasional provocation. Topics drift across:
The PhD in progress — grounded theory, correctional culture, qualitative methods, the researcher’s dilemma
The pracademic condition — what it means to live between frontline experience and scholarly analysis
Frontline Peer — the ground truth methodology, recognition as repair, worker voice as evidence
Writing and intellectual production — how I think, how I work, what I’ve learned about doing both honestly
None of it is finished. All of it is serious. And Fun.
Who this is for
If you’re a researcher, practitioner, or curious person somewhere between the sharp end and the blunt end of any institution — trying to make sense of the gap between policy and practice, between what the system says and what the work actually feels like — you’re in the right place.
If you’re a writer or academic navigating the pressure to have it all figured out before you say anything, you’re also in the right place.
This publication is paywalled — not because access should be a luxury, but because the work it supports is real and ongoing. If the subscription cost is a barrier, write to me me and ask for a scholarship. I mean that.
Long-haul discounts exist for people who want to engage.
A note on voice
I write the way I think — which is to say, not in a straight line, but never without a point. You’ll find academic references alongside personal narrative alongside institutional critique. That’s not a lack of discipline. It’s the MotionMic philosophy in practice: fidelity to the complexity of the thing, without pretending it resolves more neatly than it does.
The (0.8) pause matters. So does everything that comes after it.
Welcome. I’m glad you’re here.
— Micheal P. Taylor PhD Candidate | Pracademic | Founder, Emion Innova Inc.
