This Is MotionMic
How I'm turning walking and talking into an intellectual production system.
I’m Mike—a pracademic, PhD candidate, and the founder of MotionMic.
I study how organizations learn (and how they don’t), and somewhere along the way I developed a methodology for thinking on the move: walking, dictating, and feeding it all through a digital workflow that actually produces something.
That’s MotionMic™ in a nutshell and here is where I work ideas out aloud.
Not in the polished, after-the-fact way most people share their process — but in real time, while I’m mid-stride between the dissertation, the ventures, and the hundred small decisions that make up a knowledge worker’s day. If you’re interested in how ideas get made, not just what they look like when they’re done, you’re in the right place.
What to Expect
I split content roughly evenly between method and insight — related, but different.
On the method side, I’ll break down how I actually work: the walking-and-dictation routines, the digital note-taking architecture, the workflows that connect raw voice memos to finished writing. Think David Allen’s Getting Things Done meets Sönke Ahrens’ How to Take Smart Notes, filtered through someone who builds his entire intellectual production pipeline while moving through the world. These posts are free. If I’ve figured something out that saves you time or sharpens your process, I want you to have it.
On the insight side, I go deeper — into the ideas themselves, the tensions I’m wrestling with as a researcher and practitioner, and the harder lessons about what it means to produce serious work outside the conventional paths. Some of this carries real intellectual and personal risk, so that content lives behind the paywall. Not as a cash grab — as a commitment filter. If you’re investing in this, I want to know you’re here for it.
How to Engage
Subscribe — Free gets you the methodology. Paid gets you the deeper work, plus access to me directly for consultation on building your own MotionMic. inspired workflows.
Share — If something here lands, pass it along. Social media, email, group chat — the usual suspects.
Talk back — Tell me what’s working, what isn’t, what you want to see. This isn’t a broadcast. Your voice shapes what comes next.
Keeping the conversation going,
Micheal P. Taylor
Learn more about my work at mptaylor.com