Book · 2024

The Unbusy Founder

A short book about doing less, on purpose.

Role
Author
Years
2024
Status
Out now
The cover of The Unbusy Founder
01

Why a book

Readers kept asking for the Sunday letters in one place, in order, without the typos. So I rewrote the best fifty into twelve chapters.

02

What is in it

How to pick a business model you can run in four days a week, how to say no to good ideas, and how to know when to stop.

03

How it went

I published it myself, sold it from the newsletter first and kept it short enough to read on a flight.

chapters
12
pages
180
flight to read it
1
“If your company only works when you are exhausted, it does not work yet.”
Maya, looking back
A stack of the book on a desk
The book on a desk by a window
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