Field Notes

Documentation from someone actually in the work.

Essays, frameworks, and short reads. No theory. Each piece is something I'm running right now, written down so you can run it too.

Closing

The closer making the most calls may not be your best closer.

100 calls can produce 100 lessons. Or they can produce the same lesson 100 times.

2 MIN READAUG 2026
Closing

The best closers aren’t afraid of silence.

A prospect might be about to tell you something important. And if you jump in too quickly, you may never find out.

2 MIN READAUG 2026
Cross-Pillar

Never let your foot completely off the gas.

Skills compound. Relationships compound. Reputation compounds. The cheapest version of your goal is the one you don’t interrupt.

2 MIN READAUG 2026
Cross-Pillar

Is this actually my best effort, or is this just my normal?

Mid-set at the gym, a question popped in my mind. If we’re not pushing to failure, what are we doing?

2 MIN READAUG 2026
Cross-Pillar

Most people don’t have a motivation problem. They have a bottleneck problem.

You don’t need to solve step 10 when step 1 is still broken. Find the constraint. Solve it properly. Then move.

2 MIN READJUL 2026
Revenue Ops

Me vs. my business owner in July.

He closed more deals while I collected more cash upfront. Neither number, on its own, tells me who performed better.

2 MIN READJUL 2026
Closing

You don’t rise to the occasion. You fall to the level of your training.

One of the earliest discovery calls I ever ran looked perfect on paper. Then the call started.

2 MIN READJUL 2026
Closing

The question behind every question.

It took me from empty discoveries full of meaningless information to conversations that uncover pain, desire, trust, and urgency.

2 MIN READJUL 2026
Revenue Ops

How long does a problem stay a problem once you’ve seen it?

Revenue doesn’t slow down overnight. It slows down when small operational problems are allowed to compound.

2 MIN READJUN 2026
Closing

The best sales calls don’t feel like sales calls.

They feel like two people trying to work through a problem. When a prospect books a call, they’re usually not looking for a pitch.

2 MIN READJUN 2026
Closing

The best closers operate like the answer might be no.

Every prospect walks into a sales call carrying doubts. Those doubts don’t suddenly appear when you present the price.

2 MIN READJUN 2026
Closing

“How will I get everything else done if I spend this money?”

I hear a version of that sentence on sales calls every week. This month, it was mine.

3 MIN READJUN 2026
Building · Featured

How two spreadsheets became Trail and Remit.

In April, I told my team I was going to turn both of our spreadsheets into applications. All I had was some basic programming knowledge and AI.

3 MIN READJUN 2026
Revenue Ops · Featured

The Daily Pulse: the one report that lets a coaching founder sleep at night.

Bookings vs. shows, deposits secured, cash collected — three numbers, sent before the first call of the day. Here's the exact format I run for Community of Closers and how it caught a 22% conversion dip the week it happened.

8 MIN READFEB 2026
Cross-Pillar

The 0-1-2: the three numbers we wrote on the wall before episode one.

Capacity for vision. The distance between idea and execution. How much we put in. These are the core values Daniel and I run 0 to X on, and they were set before we recorded a minute.

4 MIN READDEC 2025
Building

Why I built Remit instead of buying a CRM.

Commission management for high-ticket teams on installment plans is a category most CRMs don't model well. Here's the architecture I built for Community of Closers and the three business rules that wouldn't fit anywhere else.

10 MIN READSEP 2025
The Operator's Dispatch

Field reports from inside the work, every month.

Frameworks, debriefs, dashboards, and the occasional uncomfortable truth. No motivational hype. No "5 ways to crush it." Just what I'm actually running, what I'm fixing, and what's compounding.

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