Thinking clearly through a change of direction.
Essays and tools for leaving a job, building something you own, and working out what you actually believe.
The provisional life
Deferring the thing you most want to do until conditions are right — which is not procrastination, and is not fixed by willpower. Three mechanisms that make it feel like maturity, and the one intervention that works.
Tools
All tools- Ready to Leave?Eight questions, twenty-four points. Whether you can leave the job yet, and what to fix first.
- Real Hourly RateWhat you actually earn per hour once meetings, scope creep and unbilled admin are counted.
- Sellability ScorecardIf you sold your company tomorrow, how sellable is it? Ten questions a buyer actually asks, scored.
Recent
All writingProcrastination is a design problem, not a feeling
You are not resisting the work. You are resisting the ambiguity of the work. Which makes this a failure of task architecture rather than of motivation — and task architecture is fixable.
The job to self-employment pipeline
Four stages from a job you don't like to working for yourself — and the one almost everybody gets stuck in. Most advice about starting a business is infrastructure advice. This is the path to revenue.
The regret of starting late
Not being behind on a project — being behind on a life. What to do when the window has actually closed on some of it, and why 'it's never too late' is addressed to somebody in a different situation from yours.
Starting a business from zero: the market value loop
How to leave a job and build something that pays — the eight stages between doing work for free and hiring someone to do it, what blocks each one, and why credibility is the only bottleneck that actually converts to money.
Work with Paul
How it works- MembershipEvery members-only essay, every course, and the working archive. Continuity for people climbing the same ladder.
- Private SessionOne 90-minute working session on your revenue operation, your offer, or your exit path. You leave with a written diagnosis and the next three moves.
- The Inner CircleMonthly sessions with Paul and a private Slack with other owners. For people running a business that should be worth more without them than with them.
- The RevOps IntensiveRevOps for Owners, plus a personal audit of your revenue operation by Paul, a charter built and walked through with you, and four working sessions over the following quarter.