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Personal Site Of David Mitchell.

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

Now

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

A broader profile

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

Recent posts

Fresh thinking from the archive

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Real Fans

A long time fan of Science Fiction/Fantasy speaks up on the Hugo Awards of 2015

XML DB (2003)

I’ve dug up an interesting post I made back in 2003 about the SourceForge project “XML DB”

Curating

I’ve been curating posts from my older blog. Here are a couple short tips I think may still be relevant.

Pay by Touch

I’ve dug up an interesting post I made back in 2003 about Pay By Touch. It has very striking similarities to payment situations today.

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