Practices
The companion practices to the trilogy. Free, open, and ongoing — the work that follows the books and continues as long as you need it to.
No paywall, no upsell, no premium tier. The practice is the work. We're not asking you to pay to do it.
The practices stand alone. The books make them deeper, but you can start any of them today — and people do.
The prompts arrive in your inbox. No app to download, no streak to maintain, no community to join. Quiet by design.
The Failure Resume is a one-time, foundational practice — a tool you use once, deliberately, and return to whenever the voice gets loud again. The aim is to externalize the running commentary of doubt that arrives before you create, so it stops feeling like the truth and starts looking like what it is: a list of events, not a verdict on who you are.
Three steps. Repeatable. Free at failureresume.org.
The first work is recognition. When you hear the voice — the hesitation before you begin — pay attention to its exact words. Don't argue with it. Just hear it.
Get it out of your head and onto paper. The literal failures the voice points to. Specific, dated, in your own handwriting if possible. This is the failure resume.
Once written, the failures become events. Contexts, not generalizations. Things that happened, not things you are. The reframe is what makes creating possible again.
The Failure Resume is the tool. Little Failures is the habit. A daily, weekly, and quarterly practice for catching the small failures that don't end with one writing session — the call that could have gone better, the moment you spoke when you should have listened, the email reread three times before sending.
Three cadences, six categories, four weeks to set it up. Free at littlefailures.org.
Before email, write down one or two little failures from the day before. Name the Fall — which of the six categories it belongs to. Don't analyze. Just catch.
Once a week, sit with the week's catches. Look for the pattern — the recurring Fall. That's the one that wants attention.
Every three months, read everything. What changed? What didn't? This is the cadence that turns a habit into actual growth.
The third practice is the slowest of the three. Not a tool, not a daily habit — a correspondence. One question, every two weeks, by email. You don't answer it quickly. You carry it. The week shows you what the question wanted to show you.
The practice doesn't finish. It runs as long as the questions stay useful. Free at all-ready.org.
Every two weeks, one question lands in your inbox. Mapped to one of the four movements of the book — The Lie, The Architecture, The Carriers, The Recognition.
Not "answer" — carry. The question goes with you into the week. You notice when something in your day responds to it.
If a question lands hard, you can write back — to yourself, to the practice, or to no one. The writing is for you. We don't read it.
How they fit together
The trilogy is a single argument made three ways. Failure Resume names the voice that holds you back. Little Failures keeps the daily skill of catching what doesn't go right. All-Ready is the recognition that the practice has been doing its work all along.
You don't have to start at the beginning. Some readers come to Little Failures first because the daily habit is what they need. Some come to All-Ready first because the recognition is the question they're already living. There is no wrong order.
But all three, eventually, are how it lands.