Books & resources
The small-business reading that is actually worth the evening.
What actually matters
- Prefer books by people who ran the kind of business you are running.
- Anything promising a system that works for every business is describing no business in particular.
- A second-hand copy of a good book beats a new copy of a fashionable one.
- Your library probably has most of these. That is a legitimate answer.
Picks
No specific picks in here yet — I only list things once I've actually formed an opinion about them. The points above are what I'd go on in the meantime.
Also in keeping order
- OrganisationWhere things live, so you stop looking for them.
- Cable managementCheap, deeply satisfying, and it makes a desk photograph well.
- External drives & backupThe category nobody thinks about until the week they very badly need it.
- Notebooks, planners & whiteboardsFor the thinking that does not want to happen on a screen.
Kit is the easy part. The awkward part is usually the process.
Buying a label printer fixes an afternoon. If the thing eating your week is the admin around the orders rather than the packing itself, that's the part I build.
Tell me what's eating the week