Tight rings. Dense grain. The same is true of companies, skills, and people. SLWGRWTH is a publication about building things that last.
One essay at a time. No funnel waiting on the other side.
This is not a publication against moving fast. I ship production software in days, not quarters. Speed of execution is one of the few honest advantages a small builder has, and giving it up would be malpractice.
This is a publication against confusing motion with growth. Against raising money to buy the appearance of traction. Against the reflex to scale a thing before you know if it deserves to exist. Most of what dies in this industry dies from growing faster than its roots could follow.
I have spent seventeen years building companies, and the ones that mattered were the ones I let thicken slowly: real customers, real revenue, decisions made in years instead of news cycles. I also coach nine-year-olds and keep a garden, which turn out to be the same discipline. You cannot yell a tomato into ripening. You can only tend it and show up tomorrow.
One essay on patient building. Strategy, craft, and the occasional dispatch from the garden or the dugout.
Field notes from real projects. What I shipped, what worked, what compounded, and what quietly died.
Growth hacks, courses, or a paid tier ambush. This site is the product.
Builder and operator in South Florida. I run business development at a multi-family office by day and build a portfolio of software companies the rest of the time, mostly alone, mostly with AI, always at full speed. I wrote a book called SaaS To TraaSh about what happens to enterprise software when intelligence gets cheap.
SLWGRWTH is where the slower thinking lives.