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Working in public.
Essays on creative direction, building audience before you need one, and the working method underneath the practice. Published when there's something worth saying.
May 2026 · field note · 6 min read
The brand is the wrong place to start.
Brands brief a film about themselves. The films people actually watch start somewhere else — with a person, a theme, and something at stake. The order that makes a brand film worth finishing.
May 2026 · field note · 6 min read
Serial content is the new television.
The brands winning attention in 2026 aren't posting more — they're running shows. The shift from posts to formats, and why the part that actually decides whether it works isn't the format at all.
May 2026 · essay · 6 min read
Build an audience before you need one.
Most founders start marketing the day the product is ready. By then the audience that would have actually cared is doing something else. The case for working in public — early.
May 2026 · framework · 8 min read
The engine behind the work.
A working method for using AI as the operational layer underneath strategy and craft — without flattening either. Five moves a small practice can start running this week.
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