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Building & Leading.
Running companies, running teams, running yourself. Entrepreneurship at the intersection of solo-founding and AI-first operations. I've made most of the mistakes listed here twice; the essays try to be honest about which ones I'd still make.
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The handover document as strategic asset
Most handover documents protect the writer. The ones that create lasting value protect the reader — and the business.
- The contract you've already negotiated 6 min
- Business continuity in special times 4 min
- The three clauses that actually carry the culture 6 min
- A Year with the Pandemic — One Agency's Operational Diary 6 min
- Rolling 9-month forecasting: the cashflow discipline that showed me COVID had hit before anyone told me 6 min
- The deal we walked away from 5 min
- The Growth Award and What It Does Not Measure 5 min
- Self-taught nerds: the hiring line that stuck 6 min
- Your first trade fair booth 5 min
- The logo decision 4 min
- Joining an international agency network as a ten-person shop 5 min
- The year I sent 33,000 emails 5 min
- The first time you delegate your core skill 4 min
- Running two businesses at once: the efficiency trap 5 min
- Why I Check Email Only on Tuesdays and Fridays 5 min
- We Published Our Entire Playbook. On Purpose. 4 min
- 200+ sites, one AdSense account, and the most expensive lesson so far 6 min