Worth ten minutes.
Tools, opinion and reading. Free, no sign-up, published one at a time.
Why engage me at all? Answered in writing.
One honest case per offering — the argument I would make across a table, written down so you can test it before we ever speak.
Borrow the director, skip the hire.
The expensive problems are shaped like projects, not jobs. Senior finance by the day — with no commission riding on the answer.
The cost of not knowing.
Ten things that quietly cost a business real money — late payments alone average ~$29,000 a year. Any two dwarf the fee.
You only sell it once.
The buyer has done this ten times; you get one go. Why an unopposed offer is a price, not a value.
Two numbers in, one number out.
Free, on the page, nothing to download.
Numbers worth a minute each.
One data point at a time — each one relevant to any owner-led business, with the source attached. Added as they earn it.
What being paid late costs the average Australian SME per year — cash funding your customers’ businesses instead of yours.OneBook SME Cash Flow Report, 2026
What small business owed the ATO at 30 June 2025 — two thirds of every dollar the Tax Office is chasing, and up 118% in six years. Collection stopped being patient some time ago.ANAO, Auditor-General Report No. 45 of 2025–26
The average tax debt carried by each of the 1.3 million small businesses that owe one. This is not a handful of large failures. It is the ordinary business, quietly behind.ANAO, Auditor-General Report No. 45 of 2025–26
The share of SMEs using their adviser mainly for compliance and admin — not strategy or growth. The tax return tells you what happened last year; nobody is paid to say what should happen next quarter.Findex SME Growth Index, 2026
Australian businesses that closed in the year to June 2026 — more than a thousand a day, and close to one in seven of everything trading. More opened than closed, so this is churn rather than collapse. It is still a lot of owners finding out late.ABS, Counts of Australian Businesses, released 18 August 2026
Four numbers that matter to your business. Every Monday.
One subject a week, told through four numbers that build on each other — what they mean, and the questions to ask of your own business. Every figure sourced. Free, and one email.
Longer reads, built from public data.
Each one takes a published series, reads it properly, and says what it means for someone who owns a business. Series codes on every figure, so you can check me.
The state of the world: the good, the bad and the ugly.
Poverty down two thirds. Child mortality nearly halved. Growth slowing, the world barely replacing itself, and two alarming numbers that mostly dissolve once you measure them per person.
Owning beat earning. Here is by how much.
Real income per person rose 72 per cent in thirty years. The value of listed companies rose 719. The gap is the whole story of who got wealthy — and why your business is an asset, not a job.
The shelf I actually go back to.
Eight books that changed how I price risk, judge management, read a cycle, keep changing, and stay calm through all of it.
The Outsiders
Eight unconventional CEOs who beat the market by treating capital allocation — not operations — as the CEO’s real job. The best short course on what a great owner actually does.
This Time Is Different
Eight centuries of financial crises, and the same four words spoken before every one of them. The reason I hold cash discipline above growth stories.
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Two centuries of data on one quiet law: when the return on capital outruns growth, wealth compounds to the owners of assets, not the earners of wages. The strongest case ever assembled for owning the business rather than just working in one.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Why smart people make predictable mistakes with numbers — anchoring, overconfidence, loss aversion. Every negotiation I sit in is this book, live.
Flow
Decades of research on when life actually feels best — and it is never leisure. It is absorbed, stretching effort with a clear goal and instant feedback. Meaning lives in the doing, not the finishing.
The Brain That Changes Itself
Case studies of brains rewiring themselves at every age — they read like fiction and are not. The reason I don’t believe in fixed people, fixed habits, or fixed businesses.
Man’s Search for Meaning
A psychiatrist in the camps discovers the last human freedom: choosing your response. The deepest answer to what actually makes people change — not pressure, a reason.
Meditations
Private notes from a man running an empire, never meant to be published. Two thousand years old and still the best manual for staying calm while everything demands a reaction — control what you can, let the rest pass.
Prefer to just talk it through?
Tell me what you are trying to work out and we will run through it together — you will get a straight answer either way, including if the answer is that you do not need me.
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