An employee tattooed our brands on her arm, and it changed how I think about what we owe the people building their lives around this company.
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The 601 Journal
Stories, lessons and milestones from building an enduring hospitality company. An honest, practical record of building The 601 Group, written as it happens and grounded in experience rather than theory.
The focus
What I write about
The journal lives on the 601 Group site. This is simply a doorway to it.
I write about the intersection of food, leadership and what it takes to build something people care about. The entries are reflections more than essays: the cash-flow nights, the design decisions, the moments a room comes alive, the lessons borrowed from leaders I've watched up close. If The Gathering Project asks why people gather, the journal is the working log of someone trying to build the places where they do.
Selected reflections
See all →On the strange pressure of good things all arriving at the same time and what cash flow teaches you about timing.
Read →What James Carse's Finite and Infinite Games reveals about how to build a business that's meant to last.
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Apr 2026
Why We Don't Charge a Credit Card Fee
Hospitality
Mar 2026
Inviting People Into the Journey
Experience
Jan 2026
People, Then Profits
Culture
Aug 2025
Why Hospitality Needs a New Playbook
Hospitality
Sep 2025
In It, On It, All In: Rethinking the Leadership Pendulum
Leadership
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Essays & research
Separate from the journal, a few longer standalone pieces, deeper research on the ideas behind the work.
Why teams that create something together build deeper trust than teams who simply attend something, drawn from the research on memory, synchrony and shared making.
Read the essay (PDF) →On what technology accelerates and what it cannot replace. As work grows more digital, the value of being in a room and making something by hand only rises.
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