Personal Site Of David Mitchell.
Long-form essays, writing updates, MBA sketchnotes, and practical business resources live together.
Current focus areas
Monthly updates on novels, editing progress, and publishing experiments.
Sketchnotes and practical summaries designed to compress an MBA into something usable.
Tools, frameworks, and notes for small business operators and technical leaders.
Projects in motion
Track current novels, nonfiction work, and the release cadence behind them.
Useful over theoretical
Collected resources for operators, builders, and leaders working with limited time.
A broader profile
Technology, outdoors, leadership, family life, and the mix of interests behind the site.
Fresh thinking from the archive
Customers lie
I’ve heard it said that all customers lie.
On Being an Entrepreneur
Being an entrepreneur really is like being on a roller coaster.
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...
Take time to think
Lean into boredom.
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