Founder · Author

Most people carry more than they contribute.

Not because they don’t care. Because giving your best costs something: the risk of looking unprepared, negative, foolish or just plain wrong. So the warning goes unsaid, the idea never leaves someone’s head, and the question never gets asked. Warnings, ideas, questions: all of them contributions, and every one costs the person who makes it. I’ve watched people pay that price for decades, and I’ve paid it myself more times than I can count.

Everything I build is aimed at that one problem. Two apps and two books this year, one mission: bringing down the cost of contribution, until giving your best is your best move.

Apps

01

Teamsworth

Teamsworth sees when a team's most valuable contributions go quiet, works out why, and gives the team the one move that brings them back. Coming out of beta.

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02

Experiously

For most people, the most valuable thing they have to contribute is what they have lived through. Yet almost all of that experience is lost: shared once, then buried by the feed. Experiously gives those experiences a permanent home, where anyone facing the same situation can learn from someone who has been there. In early access.

Visit experiously.com

Books

03

Proferism

The thinking beneath both apps. We're all sold the same idea: you are what you achieve, and it doesn't count until someone approves. Proferism proves the opposite. You are what you contribute, approval or not. Contribution always comes first: nothing was ever achieved without it.

Buy the book on Amazon
04

The When Test

Your brightest future, blocked by a four-letter word. "I'll start When I'm ready." "I'll begin When things calm down." The When Test shows you the machinery behind those sentences, and how to walk through the door anyway. Not When. Now.

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My story

I’ve been a builder all my life: businesses, products, programmes, books. And for most of it, I kept what I built hidden from the very people it could benefit.

Not because my work wasn’t good. Because as long as my work stayed hidden, nobody could tell me it wasn’t good. I was afraid of being judged. It’s that simple.

This year things changed. The fear didn’t go away. I just stopped listening to it. In fact, I got to know that fear so well that I wrote a book about how it works: The When Test, above.

Everything I build now goes into the open and stays there, whether it succeeds or fails.

PS: You can read many of my experiences at experiously.com/chris

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