Welcome to Messy Business: the AA meeting for tech founders, flounderers (and friendlies caught in the fire)

Hi folks. Thanks for joining us.

This is Messy Business.

A place where we stop pretending everything is fine and talk about what it actually takes to build things: the courage, the delusion, the obsession, the exhaustion, the f**k-it-lets-do-it-anyway spunk -and those quiet moments of calm between the storms...where you swear the universe is personally trolling you.

No, this is not a thought-leadership temple: but a support group.

A place for:

• founders who are tired of being “resilient”
• operators who’ve done one too many “quick favours”
• dreamers who forgot they’re allowed to rest
• the secretly burned-out and the quietly ambitious
• and everyone building something (while trying not to fall apart inside)

Here, we'll talk about the stuff that never makes it into pitch decks, not to wallow, but to understand what sustainable ambition actually asks of us: the fear, the loneliness, the imposter spirals, the emotional tax of carrying everyone else’s belief when you’re not sure you even believe in yourself.

But we also talk about hope.
Reinvention.
The small wins that remind you why any of this madness is worth it.
And the moments of sparkling clarity that sometimes seem to only come when everything has gone sideways.

This is about truth-telling. To decompress and step away from the world of zeros and ones, of success and failure, and have a quiet, 'human' moment. But along with the catharsis we'll also be looking at the patterns beneath the chaos, to understand what they're asking of us.

If you’re here, you’re probably building something.
Or thinking about building something.
Or recovering from building something.

Either way, welcome.
Pull up a chair.
You’re among friends now.

If you'd like to stay connected, feel free to subscribe. Messy Business is written slowly: usually one, occasionally two pieces a month. And if there's nothing worth saying, you won't hear from me.