Business Building
When Everything Comes Due at Once
On the strange pressure of good things all arriving at the same time — and what cash flow teaches you about timing.
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Moments & Milestones
The making of a timeless hospitality business. An honest, practical record of building The 601 Group — written as it happens, 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
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Culture
Finite Games, Infinite Builders
What James Carse's Finite and Infinite Games reveals about how to build a business that's meant to last.
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Leadership
The Teacher I Never Met
A career spent watching how organizations are built — and learning as much from what to avoid as what to copy.
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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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