12 recipes, newest change first. Each one is the process in plain words, the model to build it, and the sources it was written from.
Watch films the way a director makes them: one craft at a time, one scene shot by shot, every technique named. For a film club or class of five to thirty people who want to direct. Seasons of weekly meetings where everyone watches for the same thing, and a toolkit that grows with every film.
Updated Oct 25, 2026 · 3 sources
Know what goes out, when, and who's writing it. For a marketing team of two to ten. One place for every blog post, newsletter and social post, from the first idea to the published link, with campaigns to see whether a launch is on track.
Updated Oct 23, 2026 · 3 sources
Every scrim has a purpose, every game is reviewed by the next morning, and every strat earns its place in officials. For a professional Counter-Strike 2 team: coach, in-game leader, analyst and five players. How such a team practises, from the strat book to match day.
Updated Oct 23, 2026 · 2 sources
Every farm gets its own fiber back, and knows when its turn comes. For a small custom mill of two to six people that turns farms' wool and alpaca into roving, batts and yarn. From the bag on the doorstep to the box going home, with an honest answer to "when will mine start?".
Updated Oct 23, 2026 · 3 sources
Every guitar has a locked spec, a promised month, and a customer who hears from you at every stage. For a custom shop of one to five builders. How a guitar goes from the first email to the shipped case.
Updated Oct 23, 2026 · 3 sources
Declared in one step, run by one commander, told to customers on a clock, and closed only when the fixes are done. For a SaaS engineering team with someone on call. An outage handled from the first page to the last action item, built on PagerDuty's response guide.
Updated Oct 23, 2026 · 2 sources
Everyone knows the few things that matter this quarter, and whether they're moving. For a company of twenty to two hundred people in several teams. John Doerr's Objectives and Key Results, set up so every team objective shows under the company objective it serves and the weekly check in is a record, not a memory.
Updated Oct 23, 2026 · 3 sources
Know where every phone is, what it costs and when it's ready. For a walk-in phone repair shop of three to six people. Every phone from the counter to the bench and back, the parts it needs, and the warranty that follows it out of the door.
Updated Oct 23, 2026 · 3 sources
Every purchase gets a yes from whoever owns the money, finance pays only vendors it has checked, and each department sees what it has already committed this quarter. For a company of about 200 people: how it asks for, approves and pays for things, without a spreadsheet and a chain of emails.
Updated Oct 23, 2026 · 3 sources
Every open deal has a next step, a number and a date, and the team looks at all of them every Monday. For the sales team of a small SaaS company, from a founder who sells to ten reps. A B2B pipeline from the first inbound or outbound lead to a signature or a lost reason.
Updated Oct 23, 2026 · 3 sources
Fixed time, flexible scope, no backlog. For a product team of five to fifty. Basecamp's way of building software, set up so the rules enforce themselves.
Updated Oct 23, 2026 · 1 source
Every community cat fixed, returned home, and counted once. For a volunteer group of a few coordinators and the trappers and caretakers they call on. Trap, neuter, return, from a neighbor's report to a colony where every cat wears an eartip.
Updated Oct 23, 2026 · 3 sources