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.
Media
Shows, podcasts, books, essays and film.
Research
The study of how people make decisions.
Initiatives
Public-good projects built to be useful, like the Self-Audit Project.
Ventures
New builds, each standing on its own.
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 →Initiative
The City of Questions
A public-good project that treats Barcelona as a city of questions.
Media
Before You Decide
A mass-market book on consequential decisions.
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.
Media
The Beezer Brothers
Screenplays, written with my brother. The first film is the goal.
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 ↗Venture
Black Laptops
A digital advantage for Black entrepreneurs.
Visit Black Laptops ↗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 ↗Venture · Coming June 2027
Fortalen
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.