The First Thing is the Innovation Philosophie publication. A morning read and a weekly hour. The same method, at two depths.
Become an Impact Maker ➜Most of what gets shipped in a given week starts from the same tools, the same stack, and the same trend. The work gets faster. It also gets harder to tell apart.
The First Thing is the daily practice for founders who want a way through that. You name the pattern everyone is using. Then you build from a different input.
The First Thing is a single sequence for Impact Makers. Each entry stands alone. Read in order, the entries build one method for original work.
Written the way a builder talks.
ONE
SEQUENCE.
From the outside it can look scattered. Philosophy, business, and the way cities and cultures were built, in one morning. Under that, three moves:
The default move in your field, named so you can see it clearly.
An idea from another field, set against your problem until a different option shows up.
Something you can build with today. Each read adds one piece to the method.
The reads draw on philosophy, on older systems, and on how cities and cultures were built. The references can stay in the background. The page still tells you the move.
When membership opens, one membership includes the morning read, the weekly hour, and the archive. The waitlist is how you hear. This page does not take payment.
The morning read. One pattern, reframed, before you open your feed.
The hour. One entry at full depth. A recorded hour on how a builder thought a new thing through.
The sequence so far. Reads and hours that have been published, there when you join.
Membership
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Impact Makers. Founders who will read in the morning and sit for the weekly hour.
The First Thing is the publication. Embody is the object line. They share this waitlist, and they stay distinct: one is the read, one is the thing in your hands. The Innovation Philosophie Podcast is a further part of Innovation Philosophie, and it is separate from this publication.
You are joining the waitlist. We write when membership opens. A morning read does not arrive the next day from this form.
A morning read, a weekly hour, and the archive of what has been published. The morning read names one pattern, brings in one idea from outside your field, and ends with one move. The weekly hour stays on a single entry for one recorded hour.
Entries already named include The Flawed Metaphor, Permission Is a Cage, Their Broken Definitions of Success, The Dying Paradigm, Still in Their Architecture, Conviction Over Consensus, Sole Author, and The Polymath's Advantage.
You can use the read without a background in it. References to philosophy, older systems, and how cities and cultures were built sit in the background. The page still gives you the move.
The weekly hour is one recorded hour on a single entry of The First Thing, for members when membership opens. The Innovation Philosophie Podcast is a separate page: conversations with founders, investors and Impact Makers. First episodes are not up yet. This site does not link to a listening platform. See the podcast.
The waitlist is free, and this page does not take payment. If membership is offered for a fee later, you will see the price before you pay.
Join the waitlist for The First Thing. We will email you when membership opens.