The Book of Presence

15

Chapters

20,458

Words. Part one of five

1000+

Readers & listeners

After reading the Book of Presence

What will shift?

Are you a maker, practitioner or solo-operator who is done with easy answers, done with performing, and longs to carve your own path?

Name it

You'll have a name for the cycle that's been exhausting you. And a way out of it.

Know it

You'll know that your worth doesn't depend on your performance. It never did.

Own it

You'll own your wounds differently. Not as things to overcome, but things that qualify you.

Use it

You'll understand the architecture of presence. And carry a practice simple enough to sustain it.

About the book

Build. But don't break.

The book opens with the Overture that will attune you to a completely new way of moving with your work. Then eight chapters exploring Presence and what it actually means to show up as yourself: incomplete, imperfect, and exactly what the work requires.

Slip the Founder’s Noose

Name the exhausting cycle of fear, forced action, and outcome-worship so you can break it.

Discover the PEACE Practice

Five grounding frequencies: Presence, Empathy, Action, Constraints, Evolution. A compass for navigating the noise and revealing who you are.

Master the Rhythm

Reflection. Action. Observation. Three beats. One melody on repeat. The simple daily cadence that replaces performance with practice.

Light Your Campfire

Stop building stages and projecting power. The other 1% don't perform for anyone. They clear the ground, light the fire, and invite people to take a seat.

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A letter from the author

I wrote this for you.

Hello friend,

Like me, you probably know what it's like to face the work alone. It’s easy to get lost in the busywork, fixating on what do I do? when we really need to return to who we are.

In my experience, good people make the difference. People who can ask the questions we've missed, offer perspectives we've overlooked, and hold us accountable to what the work actually needs. Whilst this book won’t put me in the room with you, I hope it can go some way to breaking that isolation.

This book is the first complete Movement of The Unremarkable Entrepreneur, a five-part series that is still being written. I have decided to leave the fingerprints of the creative process in the prose. It’s a trail of evidence I want you to see: you don’t need the perfect plan. You need to serve the work, and notice what’s emerging as you do.

There is no curriculum here, no guaranteed answers, and I’m not going to tell you to work in a way that just doesn't feel right. This is about finding your own path, and my attempt to walk alongside, as incomplete and imperfect as that may be.

If you are already motivated, hard work doesn't scare you, and you bring a level of intention into your work that is rare - I wrote this for you.

Dan Dowman

Unremarkable Founder

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Reader Testimonials

Notes from the other 1%

The Unremarkable Entrepreneur has over a thousand readers and listeners. Here are some of the ways the words have moved, supported and challenged them.

I spent years measuring myself by the numbers. This is for anyone ready to step away from the dashboard and do work that actually matters.
Calvin Quallis
Author | In the Middle
If you waste energy agonising over the 'correct' path, Dan offers powerful, sacred wisdom for taking action exactly where you are right now.
Michael Mirza
Artist | Michael Mirza Design Studio
Have you considered how bitterness drives you? Dan peels back the curtain on the soul, helping you finally name the unseen forces behind your work.
Rebecca Hawkins
Founder | Regenerative Workplaces
The quality and consistency of Dan's writing is damn impressive. This book is nothing short of a masterclass in original thinking. Read and be changed.
Justin Foster
Founder | Massive
A brilliant architectural frame. Treating presence as something you build and sustain, rather than achieve, is a truth that will stick with you.
Michael Bigg
Rector | St Andrew's Girton
Incredibly thoughtful writing. The philosophy might be called 'unremarkable,' but what it does for your practice is anything but.
Jim Overton
Founder | RISE
Beautifully written. Dan's storytelling is so powerful, raw, and honest that it completely wrecked me in the best way possible.
Sarah John
Teacher
I loved the framing of the two failure modes. This book brilliantly shows how to live from presence and trust your contact with the world.
Francis Lacoste
Founder | The VPE Coach

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What's inside?

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An Unremarkable Promise

The Book of Presence is for practitioners who are ready to respond to their calling in a way that doesn’t force them to perform or measure them by results.

There is no template to follow, no formula for success, and no guaranteed outcomes. If that's what you need, close this page.

There are plenty of people selling that. Go find them, and best of luck.

But if you are ready to stop the performance and show up as yourself, you belong here. Where our best work is something we find, not an outcome we force.

Serve the work, not the outcome.

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Connect with Dan

About the author

Dan Dowman is an author, practitioner, and the founder of The Order of Unremarkable Creators - a private fellowship of practice for independent makers, artists, and solopreneurs. The other 1% who are building something that matters and refuse to face the work alone.

He has spent decades navigating the gap between calling and practice: five redundancies and endless false starts, and eventually revealed that his best work was never chosen, it was found.

The Unremarkable Entrepreneur is the book he needed when he started and couldn’t find. It is being written and published chapter by chapter, weekly, at unremarkable.co.

Dan lives in the West Midlands in the United Kingdom with his wife Laura and their beloved son, and a little doggy called Lars.

You're not showing up. You're performing.

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20,458

1000+

What will shift?

Name it

Know it

Own it

Use it

Build. But don't break.

Slip the Founder’s Noose

Discover the PEACE Practice

Master the Rhythm

Light Your Campfire

Join the movement

Download the book

Become a patron

Honour your friends

I wrote this for you.

Notes from the other 1%

What's inside?

eBook Edition

Tablet Edition

Print-ready Edition

Be in the book

An Unremarkable Promise

About the author