The institutions.
Four institutions, side by side. ThinkerBuilder Works is the shared expression of the thinking behind all four.
What it is
ThinkerBuilder Works is the organizing home for the public work of Ihsan Beezer. It does not own or run the other institutions, and it is not a holding company. It is a way to see the whole body of work in one place: the shows and books, the research, the public-good initiatives and the ventures that follow. IHSAN Advisory, Black Laptops and Fortalen are institutions of their own, standing beside it.
The work inside it is described honestly. Most of what you will find here is in formation: projects being written, recorded, tested and built, published when they are ready.
The name
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. ThinkerBuilder Works holds both.
Why "Works"
The name carries the whole idea in one word. 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: the institution exists for people who do both, and it is organized around what gets finished and left behind, not only what gets talked about.
Copy review (draft note)The live Institution page calls IHSAN Advisory, Fortalen and Black Laptops "separate institutions, not arms of ThinkerBuilder Works". This draft shows all four as equal peers (ThinkerBuilder Works, IHSAN Advisory, Black Laptops, Fortalen) at his request, with ThinkerBuilder Works as the shared expression of the thinking behind them. The live "separate institutions" wording is replaced; the key sentence has alternatives in the report.
Addition: split from the live Institution page
The founder.
ThinkerBuilder Works is led by Ihsan Beezer, a thinker who builds: writer, researcher and entrepreneur, a doctoral candidate in strategy and entrepreneurship at Rutgers Business School, and the founder of institutions across advisory, technology and sport.
IhsanBeezer.com ↗ The institutions Contact
Privacy.
How ThinkerBuilder Works handles information on this site. A simple site, with no accounts or advertising trackers.
What we collect
This website does not run accounts, comment systems, checkout, advertising trackers or analytics that identify you. If you email us, we receive your email address and whatever you choose to send.
Email inquiries
Inquiries sent through the contact page go to the founder's office. We use them only to respond to you. We do not add you to a mailing list without your explicit choice, and we do not sell or share your information with third parties for their marketing.
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