The First 90 Days: How Trust Gets Built
Lessons from watching new colleagues' first 90 days on campus: trust is built not by goal documents but by small, everyday moments on the team.
How We Work
How we make decisions, work together, and put our principles into practice.
Three Questions I Ask Before Turning Repetitive Work Into a System
Three questions I ask before turning repetitive work into a system, drawn from three times automation ended up creating more work instead of less.
Why a Data Analyst Chose a Ten-Person Company
The math behind a data analyst's choice of a ten-person education company over a 1,400-person firm, and how two pre-move worries actually turned out.
What We Actually Ask in Interviews
The three interview questions we actually ask, the principles behind our three-hour take-home task, and the patterns in why we turn candidates down.
Three Misconceptions About Academy Teachers
A teacher at Epic Prep pushes back on three misconceptions about academy teaching, drawing on scenes from class observations and curriculum meetings.
Coaching Is Designing Repetition
A coaching story about tearing down the program of a member whose numbers had been stuck for eight weeks, and learning to make the same movements repeat differently.
The 30-Minute Weekly Review: Numbers and Voices at One Table
The trial and error behind a 30-minute weekly review that puts attendance numbers, homework data, and voices from the floor on one table.
What Started After My Proposal Lost
A record of executing, at full strength, a curriculum decision I had argued against, and watching the assumptions our team built together get rewritten.
Why One Company Runs Four Brands
The honest math behind running a language academy, a gym, and a software team as one company, and the bill that structure keeps sending us.