You work, full time or part time, and you study for a master’s degree. This site gives you one small habit so the two stop disappearing into each other, and one place to see how it works.
The assignment is in. The meeting is over. Next month, when your thesis supervisor or a job interviewer asks what the degree changed about how you work, the answer is gone. You lived it. You did not keep it.
Every Friday at 07:00 an email arrives with the same four questions. You write four short paragraphs in your own words and save them with the date. It is free, and it is the only thing on this site you need to do.
After a term of Fridays you have a dated record, in your own words, of what you decided, what you expected, and what really happened, so you can see where you were right and where you were wrong. That is what you read back for the thesis, the interview, and next Monday.
The Friday Synthesis is one of five short writing habits in the Learner’s Discerning Practice Model, written by Dr Phuong Nguyen, a country manager who has taught working managers in an Executive MBA program for eight years. Each habit is small: fifteen minutes a week, four lines before a decision, fifteen minutes a month or every three months. Each one gives you something to read back: what you keep avoiding, where you were right and where you were wrong, what the degree really changed. The other four are here when you want them.
A job, full time or part time. A class on top of it. Most weeks leave nothing behind but the assignment. The Friday Synthesis is a free weekly practice by email: four questions, fifteen minutes, written by you. Over a term it becomes a dated record, in your own words, of what you decided, what you expected, and what really happened, so you can see where you were right and where you were wrong. An AI can write the paragraph. Only you can judge it against what you actually lived.
A job, full time or part time. A class on top of it. Most weeks leave nothing behind but the assignment. The Friday Synthesis is a free weekly practice by email: four questions, fifteen minutes, written by you. Over a term it becomes a dated record, in your own words, of what you decided, what you expected, and what really happened, so you can see where you were right and where you were wrong. An AI can write the paragraph. Only you can judge it against what you actually lived.
A free weekly writing practice by email for people who work and study for a master’s degree.
Start the free weekly practiceHow the five habits fit together, what each one gives you, and how simple each one is.
See the modelSix reflections, grounded in nine cohorts at CFVG and three decades of country leadership.
Read the reflectionsThe preprint, the articles in University World News and AACSB Insights, and the full publication record.
See the researchThirty years of country leadership, eight years across nine Executive MBA cohorts at CFVG.
Who is writing to youCorrespondence on the model, research collaboration, editorial and media requests, and questions from readers.
Write to meFour questions, in your own words, on paper or in a document of your own. One prompt arrives by email every Friday at 07:00 GMT+7. Fifteen minutes to start. Thirty when you have them. The practice is free and stays free.
Start the free weekly practice