Practical notes on building lean. No hot takes, no 10-step listicles, no AI slop. Just the things I wish I’d been told when I was starting out.
Long-form, sector-specific. The deeper reads behind the writing list.
Four serious builders, one architecture. YC's Tom Blomfield gave it a name this month: the Company Brain. This is the substrate every business will run on. Here is the version I am still building, what I learned from each of them, and the awkward truths about installing one inside a company.
Most business models assume you need more: more staff, more funding, more infrastructure. The Leanpreneur model starts from a different premise.
A real autopilot doesn't fly the plane. It holds the course you set, adjusts for turbulence, and frees you to think about where you're going. I built one for my businesses.
A solo operator's system for turning daily writing into a week of content across four platforms, with overnight automation and one morning session.
My dad ran a one-man plastering business for 50 years. No website, no ads, no marketing budget. Every job came from the last one. It took me two decades to understand why.
On ritual, resilience, AI psychosis, and why some things are worth doing slowly by hand.
After 10 years running a recruitment business, I'm stepping into something new. Here's why I'm building the Leanpreneur community and what it means for what comes next.
The constraint on building has shifted. It's not execution capacity anymore - it's judgement.
I cut hundreds from my monthly software bill by building personal systems with natural language. The infrastructure flip is here.
The most valuable thing a recruiter does - judgment under uncertainty - is the one thing AI still can't touch.
After sitting on an APSCo panel about the future of recruitment, I spent the next week fielding questions from agency owners and reflecting.
After 15 years straddling both recruitment and job board worlds, I've watched the same conversation happen in parallel universes.
In this episode, we're diving into the journey of Lior Neu-ner, the master of A/B testing pricing.
Where recruiters will continue to add value in the age of AI.
This week, you get to learn about Connor Finlayson, a nocode marketplace building leanpreneur.
This week, Sam joined me to talk about having fun building side hustles that interest you and provide income.
Read on to learn about a solopreneur who uses AI and automation to run multiple businesses and aims to work only 4 days per week.
Defining a new type of lean entrepreneurism. I've always struggled with the question, 'what do you do?'
A comprehensive guide to business development and sales in recruitment and staffing.
How lean principles apply to recruitment agencies.
Zero to one is a rarity, stay the course.
Why I ditched off-the-shelf recruitment CRM software and built my own on Airtable.
Why recruitment agencies should build job boards, and why job boards should build recruitment services.