Building
The Works.
A works is a body of work, everything a thinker leaves behind. A works is also a place, like an ironworks or a waterworks, where things get built. This page holds both: the shows and books, the research, the public-good initiatives and the ventures.
Kinds of work
Four categories hold the work.
The projects
Every project here stands on its own.
Advisory
IHSAN Advisory
Examination of consequential decisions before commitment.
Visit IHSAN Advisory ↗Advisory
The Quiet Advisory
Private advisory for consequential decisions.
Visit The Quiet Advisory ↗Research
Research
The scholarship: decision environments and interpretive strategy.
Explore the research →Media
Before You Decide
A mass-market book on consequential decisions.
About the book →Media
A Quiet Code
A book on living an unborrowed life.
Visit A Quiet Code ↗Media
Disturb the Obvious
A podcast that looks again at what we take for granted.
Visit Disturb the Obvious ↗Media
What If It Wasn’t?
A brand and podcast that turn a familiar idea around.
Visit What If It Wasn’t? ↗Initiative
The Self-Audit Project
Free, repeatable online self-audits that help entrepreneurs, employees and parents examine their own decisions.
Visit The Self-Audit Project ↗Venture
Black Laptops
A digital advantage for Black entrepreneurs.
Visit Black Laptops ↗Venture
Businessry
Diagnostics, systems and tools for owners who want their business more profitable, less dependent on them, and worth more.
Visit Businessry ↗Venture
Champagne & Graffiti
A streetwear brand, started with my brother.
Visit Champagne & Graffiti ↗Media
The Beezer Brothers
Screenplays, written with my brother. The first film is the goal.
Initiative
The City of Questions
A public-good project that treats Barcelona as a city of questions.
Visit The City of Questions ↗Public project
Museum of Normal Things
An institution for the things we have stopped noticing. Ordinary objects, presented as exhibits.
Visit Museum of Normal Things ↗Public project
Save Your Thinking Day
A quarterly ritual for preserving important thinking before it disappears into the digital stream.
Visit Save Your Thinking Day ↗Venture · Coming June 2027
Fortalen
A new test of human athleticism and capacity. Open to everyone.
Essays
A continuing body of writing.
Long-form thinking on judgment, ambition, work and modern life. Each essay has its own page; the archive is organized by year and topic.
The name
Everything a thinker leaves behind, and the place it gets built.
An author’s works are everything they made. A works, like Bell Works or an ironworks, is a place where raw material becomes something finished. Thinker plus Builder: this page is organized around what gets finished and left behind, not only what gets talked about.