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How things were made.

Libraries keep their records. Drafts, past versions, retired chapters and the occasional failed experiment live here — the process, preserved alongside the work.

2025–26 · Draft blogF.R.I.E.N.D.S Intelligence — the original draftThe book before it was a book: chapters serialised for feedback.Open →2026 · PracticeLeadership AdvisoryThe 1:1 advisory practice this site once led with. Kept intact; enquiries still reach me.Open →2025–26 · SitesLocal business sitesSmall sites built for Melbourne neighbours — café, pies, jianbing, hair.Open →2015–21 · CodeThe early repositoriesA decade of learning in public on GitHub — design-pattern drills, a rostering system, a trades marketplace, a Victorian school map. Kept, not polished.Open →

More holdings — book production files, illustrations, slides, design drafts — are being catalogued.

Every meaningful thing I create should eventually have a permanent home here.
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