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Personal Site Of David Mitchell.

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

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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.

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After Action Report

I’ve been going through the Best Year Ever course by Michael Hyatt. On day two, he has you look over the last year and evaluate how it went. You ar...

Time Off

Just a note. I’m taking the next two weeks off and will not be posting any articles here until the beginning of the new year.

Want success? Improve!

I recently heard a person say that anybody who is truly successul is pratically addicted to learning and improving. Couch the idea in whatever term...

Belief

When working toward a goal, even the nebulous goal of “Success” in a specific area, one of the first things we have to do is believe in that goal.

What I Want From Atom

Atom is a great editor, but I’m not quite ready to jump in with both feet just yet.

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