THEWORKS.
The public work of Ihsan Beezer.
A works is a body of work, everything a thinker leaves behind. A works is also a place, like an ironworks or a waterworks, where things get built. This page holds both: the shows and books, the research, the public-good initiatives and the ventures.
What the works holds.
Four categories hold the work.
Media
Shows, podcasts, books, essays and film.
Research
The study of how people make decisions.
Initiatives
Public-good projects built to be useful, like the Self-Audit Project.
Ventures
New builds, each standing on its own.
The work, by name.
Every project here stands on its own.
IHSAN Advisory
Examination of consequential decisions before commitment.
Visit IHSAN Advisory ↗The Quiet Advisory
Private advisory for consequential decisions.
Visit The Quiet Advisory ↗Thought Architecture
The scholarship: thought architecture, decision environments and interpretive strategy.
Visit Thought Architecture ↗The City of Questions
A public-good project that treats Barcelona as a city of questions.
Before You Decide
A mass-market book on consequential decisions.
A Quiet Code
A book on living an unborrowed life.
Visit A Quiet Code ↗Disturb the Obvious
A podcast that looks again at what we take for granted.
Visit Disturb the Obvious ↗What If It Wasn't
A brand and podcast that turn a familiar idea around.
Visit What If It Wasn't ↗The Self-Audit Project
Free, repeatable online self-audits that help entrepreneurs, employees and parents examine their own decisions.
The Beezer Brothers
Screenplays, written with my brother. The first film is the goal.
Businessry
Diagnostics, systems and tools for owners who want their business more profitable, less dependent on them, and worth more.
Visit Businessry ↗Champagne & Graffiti
A streetwear brand, started with my brother.
Visit Champagne & Graffiti ↗Black Laptops
A digital advantage for Black entrepreneurs.
Visit Black Laptops ↗Museum of Normal Things
An institution for the things we have stopped noticing. Ordinary objects, presented as exhibits.
Visit Museum of Normal Things ↗Fortalen
A continuing body of writing.
Long-form thinking on judgment, ambition, work and modern life. Each essay has its own page; the archive is organized by year and topic. Read the essays →
Long-form publications, made to be kept.
Visit the Documents page ↗An author's works are everything they made. A works, like Bell Works or an ironworks, is a place where raw material becomes something finished. Thinker plus Builder: this page is organized around what gets finished and left behind, not only what gets talked about.