Builder. Writer. Systems thinker.

Personal Site Of David Mitchell.

Long-form essays, writing updates, MBA sketchnotes, and practical business resources live together.

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Current focus areas

Fiction and nonfiction

Monthly updates on novels, editing progress, and publishing experiments.

MBA Essentials

Sketchnotes and practical summaries designed to compress an MBA into something usable.

Business resources

Tools, frameworks, and notes for small business operators and technical leaders.

Writing

Projects in motion

Track current novels, nonfiction work, and the release cadence behind them.

Business

Useful over theoretical

Collected resources for operators, builders, and leaders working with limited time.

About

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Technology, outdoors, leadership, family life, and the mix of interests behind the site.

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Fresh thinking from the archive

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Customers lie

I’ve heard it said that all customers lie.

Marginal Gains

In the hands of an expert what looks like a piece of junk can be transformed into a masterful performance.

One Percent Better

If we do something small each day to be better, that over time we will accumulate so many small, good things we will have improved greatly.

Read the fine print

Try to understand the point of view and the frame of reference the person presenting you the story is coming from and then try and make you own, in...

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