Twenty-five years of making other people’s systems work.
I’m Derek Turner. I spent a career in operations and business systems — inventory supervision, business systems management, ERP administration, Salesforce architecture. I’m now building the same kind of machinery for people running something on the side of a full life.
No. 01
The one thing I’d tell you
Most advice aimed at people like us opens with build an audience. Post daily, grow the list, become a personality. It asks you to become someone else first and build the thing second.
James Clear, in Atomic Habits:
“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”
What you’re trying to build is a system problem. Systems are the work I’ve spent twenty-five years doing.
No. 02
The short version of me
I struggled to learn to read. Then I found the library, and I read voraciously.
Twenty-five years since: inventory supervision, business systems management, ERP administration, Salesforce architecture.
I’m doing that same work now with tools large organizations can’t deploy, because of institutional inertia rather than capability.
No. 03
Where I put what I actually use
ShareNotSell is the community I’m building to share the tools and the systems I run my own businesses on — before I sell anything.
The name is the rule. Share first, not sell first. Put plainly: if I haven’t provided you with exceptional value, you shouldn’t buy from or through me.
Free to register. On day one there’s a welcome post and nothing else. The rest goes up when it’s real, not before.
If you’re mid-career, you have a job and a life, and there’s something you’ve been meaning to build — this is the room.
If you want someone to hype you into it, it isn’t. I’d rather you know that now.