Now · A living document

What has
my attention now.

A small record of the present season, updated when the season changes, not whenever the internet asks for something new. Last updated: July 2026.

Building

Consolidating the Local Business MBA into one home on Skool, taking applications for the live group, and running five capped business experiments in public at minihustles.com, published on Sundays.

Improving

The writing. Business as Practice goes out most weeks. Currently circling a longer piece on the second decade of the remote local model.

Reading

Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How It Shapes Men’s Lives, because our first son arrived this year and I am reading the manual. And Novice to Master, the autobiography of the Zen master Soko Morinaga: severe, funny, and useful far beyond the monastery.

Practising

Long trail miles with the dog, sitting daily, and one word held for the year. This year’s: simplify.

Chris running a leaf-covered ginkgo path with the Samoyed

Long miles, one dog. Most of the letters start out here.

Letting go

The Applied Book Club relaunch. It will happen later, when it can be run properly. No rush.

Redesigning this website

Done. You’re looking at it.

Stay close

The letter is where
changes land first.

You’re in. Welcome.