Resources
Five short pieces on the parts that come up most
Written over the last few years, mostly because the same question kept arriving in first calls. There is nothing to subscribe to and nothing gated. Read one, use it, and you may find you do not need to hire anybody.
Index
Everything written here
Five pieces over three years. These are not a content programme, they are the handful of explanations that turned out to be worth writing down properly.
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9 October 2025 · Measuring progress
What progress looks like when it is real
Motion and progress feel identical from the inside, and one of them is expensive. Three checks that tell them apart, and what to do when the honest answer is that nothing has moved.
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27 February 2025 · Decision making
The decisions you can afford to get wrong
Most decisions are cheap and reversible, and get treated as though they are neither. Sorting them properly buys back weeks a year.
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18 June 2024 · Career transitions
Leaving well: the six months before a career change
The work that makes a career change survivable almost all happens before the resignation. A rough shape for the six months in front of it.
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2 November 2023 · Habits
Habits break at the seams of your week
Habits rarely fail on ordinary days. They fail on the days that are shaped differently, and those days are predictable.
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14 March 2023 · Goals
Write the goal so a stranger could check it
The test that every goal in this practice has to pass, why most fail it on the first attempt, and how to rewrite one until it holds.
Reading is not the same as scheduling
If one of these described your situation closely enough to be uncomfortable, that is usually the point at which structure helps more than another article. The three programs set out what that structure costs.
