Why MakerOS
As technology expands the landscape of possibility, human choice becomes our greatest creative act.
Everything inside MakerOS exists to help people recognise possibility, choose their orientation towards it, and express it clearly enough that others can choose to participate.
What “maker” means
In MakerOS, to make is to make up your mind, take a stand, and make a confident ask for what you want. Taking a stand is what we call planting your flag.
It isn’t about making a product, a draft or a prototype. MakerOS is the inner operating system that gives you the confidence to stand for something and ask for it.
Why I made this
As a poet, founder, and CEO, starting something new and asking for what I wanted was difficult. Not for lack of ideas. Because I waited until I felt ready, instead of putting something out and learning from the feedback.
What you put out, and the feedback you get, guides your next action. Start there, and the what and the how begin to follow.
MakerOS is for founders, creatives, and CEOs with an idea ready to start, finish or win backing for. It begins where you are. Then it helps you make up your mind, plant your flag, and make a confident ask.
John C. H. Perry
Your internal structure shapes your actions
The internet is full of frames about what’s holding you back. Patterns, beliefs, procrastination, self-sabotage. They’re useful, and I’m a student of them all. But many miss the bigger picture: your internal structure shapes the actions you take. Plant Your Flag starts there. You see how you are meeting your situation. You give space to what you would love to have happen. Then you choose the stance you will take towards it. Not an idea about yourself, but a position you are willing to act from.
Create the reality you want, step by step.
Get real about where you are. Get moving towards what you’d love to have happen. Then make a confident ask.
Get Real
Get Moving
Choose your stance before you make a confident ask. Plant Your Flag helps you see your situation, focus on what you want to make possible, and choose the stance that shapes your actions.
Make Your Ask
How the Forge follows these beats
The Makers Forge follows the same three beats over its 28-day Making Sprint: Get Real, Get Moving, then Make Your Ask.
Each week, the Tuesday Making Room asks “What are you making now?” and the Thursday Enquiry Room asks “What can you see now?”
Coming later
Get Funded, from Being Investable, for when the ask is for investment.
What you love is your edge.
Championing what you love becomes your unique market position. As Steve Jobs said, “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”