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Stop Paying For Advice. Start Investing In Operating Systems.
After 400+ hours working 1:1 with +100 founders, and operators this year, I built a new kind of coaching offer: one problem, one finished outcome, + an…
 • John Brewton
We Are All Becoming Companies.
Why the founder-led brand is becoming the human interface to the company—and why you should define yours before you build the audience + BONUS…
 • John Brewton
A Conversation About The Importance of Building Real Human Relationships & Friendships in the Creator Economy w/ Special Guest and Great…
A recording from John Brewton's live video
 • John Brewton and Cory Blumenfeld
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I Built Too Much. Here’s What I’m Cutting, and What I’m Scaling Instead
What +100 coaching clients, 400 coaching hours, standing up a community, two cohorts, and a year of building with AI taught me about creating a simpler…
 • John Brewton
How I built a five-member Excel team in Claude and how you can too.
The interactive workbook to build your Excel team and how to build any workbook to build any type of agentic team your work requires
 • John Brewton
Quiet Quitting or Quiet Building? Our Changing Relationship With Professional Ambition
How to Quietly Build, not Quietly Quit, while the day job still pays, without betraying your employer, your family, your health, or your financial…
 • John Brewton
Why We Business Builders, Writers and Creators Should Want Substack To Become the Next Giant Social Media Platform
Creators are mistaking increased competition for platform decline. The answer is not a smaller Substack. It's a much larger, growing social media…
 • John Brewton

July 2026

The Value of “We Don’t Know” - Part One
How generative AI is changing the way organizations create knowledge, exercise judgment and make decisions under uncertainty.
 • John Brewton and Alex Pawlowski
The 5 Operating Habits That Built a 75,000-Person Audience Around My Passion For Operating Companies in 2.5 Years
How I built a content business around my passion for operating companies, and how you can build the same business around your passion.
 • John Brewton
Stop Arguing (or Caring) About AI Writing About Slop or Not Slop
The Interest Graph Operating Workbook for how to move beyond irrelevant debates and start driving real growth and results for your ideas, content and…
 • John Brewton
Do. Fail. Learn. Grow. Win. | My 5-Step (How-To) Framework To Succeed At Anything.
My 5-step framework for learning from failure and Ivy League research that underpins it. The exact weekly loop I run on everything to keep growing and…
 • John Brewton
How to Produce World-Class Research with Perplexity Computer & Claude -> Fable 5
The full methodology and workflow behind a 22-page, 12-chart research report: Perplexity Computer for data collection and essential research, then Opus…
 • John Brewton
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