Books, workshops and advisory
Knowledge is only worth what you can do with it
We publish the book we wish we had been handed: for the founder signing the incorporation papers, the manager who has just inherited a team, the family moving to a country whose rules nobody explained. Then we stay - because the distance between reading a chapter and doing the thing is where most good intentions quietly die.
How this works
Read it, then actually do it
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The books
Written by people who file the paperwork themselves, not summarised from other people's summaries. Each chapter ends where a decision begins.
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The workshops
A book can explain the choice. A room full of people working through their own version of it is what makes the choice stick.
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The support
When the situation stops matching the page - and it will - you get a second pair of eyes on your actual case, not a generic answer.
The practitioners
The people who wrote them
Practitioners first, authors second. Each one still does the work their book describes.
Field notes
Latest thinking
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Your Biggest Worry Rarely Kills Your Startup
This piece settles one counterintuitive finding from the field: the risk a founder names first is almost never the one that actually ends the plan.
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Marketing, Sales and Design Pull the Same Psychological Lever
This article settles a quiet assumption many teams never question — that marketing, sales and design are separate disciplines with separate playbooks. Magnus Østergaard suggests otherwise.
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The Person Missing From Every Founder's Plan
This piece names the structural gap in early-stage decision-making that most founders never notice, until it costs them a launch, a round, or a hire.