A monthly reading room for people building useful businesses and trying to remain human while they do it. One book, one month, one question: what deserves to change in the way you operate or live?
Relaunching as The Applied Book Club. Waitlist members are invited first, get the first month free, and pick the first book.
You’re on the list. We’ll be in touch.
Spanning business, psychology, philosophy, biography, and the craft of living. Nothing trendy, nothing thin.
A short note from me on the book’s central tension and the questions worth bringing to the room.
A live discussion focused on what changed when someone actually tried the idea, rather than a summary of the chapters.
A small practice or operating experiment to run in your own business before the next book begins.
For readers who want company, not homework. Bring what stayed with you, what you resisted, and what the book made newly difficult to ignore.
From the previous club, Local Business Hustlers (2020–2023). Every title here produced a real change in at least one member’s business.
The systems that make a business sellable. Mostly: stop being the bottleneck.
Working on the business vs. in it. Quoted constantly, rarely applied. We applied it.
The EOS framework. Two members rebuilt their org chart the month we read this.
Applied not to the owner, but to the team: the systems that keep showing up daily.
Out of category, on purpose. The dignity of the work we actually do.
On guarding the few hours of the week that actually move the business.
The right book does not give you more to know. It changes what you can no longer pretend not to know. The new format is small on purpose.
You’re on the list. We’ll be in touch.