The Notebook
Field notes on building the operating layer for founder-led businesses.
Essays
The founder is not the operating layer
Most founders at one to ten million pounds revenue are not the bottleneck. The absence of a system is.
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One essay every two or three weeks. No cross-posts, no roundups, no announcements. Just the field notes.
What’s coming
- The thirty-day install: what actually happens in week one
- The four roles a £5m business is debating, and the layer underneath all of them
- Five minutes a day, or it won’t survive contact with Monday
- What we’re learning building Signal