# The shelf

The homepage makes a promise: open-sourcing the lessons so your mistakes cost less than mine did. This page is where the promise is kept. Everything here is free, and each item is the open layer of one machine capability — the machine, demonstrated rather than described.

## Available

The lessons

capability: all

Dated lessons from my own runs. Free to take.

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The founder's quest

capability: Method

The long-form version of the jobs page: the quest, the clusters, the loops, the pains — written out in full.

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The iteration calculator

capability: Capital · Leverage

How many honest cycles does your budget actually buy? The site's one interactive surface.

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The confidence worksheet

capability: Method

Five dimensions of your venture, each with your confidence written down as a number.

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The honesty cadence

capability: Method

A one-page agenda for the standing fortnightly session that keeps belief and reality in the same room.

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## In build

The validation standard

capability: Method

An open standard for validating early-stage ventures: dimensions, evidence thresholds, status definitions. Everything above becomes an implementation of it.

in build

The thesis workshop

capability: Community

A small cohort, working their own ventures through the quest together. Open to anyone the thesis resonates with.

in build

The co-experiment invitation

capability: Method · Community

Bring an assumption worth testing; we run the experiment on the cadence and publish what we learn.

in build

## Considering

The fire-yourself playbook

capability: Leverage

Which recurring founder jobs to hand to AI first, how, and what resists — and why the resistance is the actual job.

considering

The fractional role template

capability: People

How to scope a senior fractional seat: decision rights, information flow, structural cadence.

considering

An item moves to available only when a stranger can use it without emailing me.

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