Software · digital media
Critical Developments
Software products for complicated work: tools that expose the real problem before decorating the interface.
The work
One venture. Several ways to make the difficult useful.
The names mark distinct kinds of work, not a small empire of imaginary subsidiaries.
Consultancy · training · school improvement
Good Education
Practical educational work built around evidence, professional judgement and what survives contact with a timetable.
Lessons · resources · philosophy advocacy
Bibby Philosophy
Independent philosophy education: difficult ideas made accessible without making them harmless.
Pedagogy · educational design systems
Pedagogy:Alpha
A design grammar for teaching materials that treats clarity, sequence and visual structure as intellectual work.
Publishing · recorded media
Methodology
The publishing and recorded-media home of Methodology Publishing, Methodology Records and The Method.
Academic society in formation
Principia Philosophica
A scholarly society in formation, with academic governance kept deliberately distinct from the commercial divisions.
First principles
Question the frame before polishing the answer.
The method is less mystical than the name suggests.
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Begin underneath
Start with the assumptions, incentives and constraints that actually produce the problem.
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Make structure earn its keep
A framework is useful only when it releases attention for the harder thinking.
- 03
Keep the claim honest
Say what exists, what comes next and what still has to be proved.
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Build for contact
Work should survive pupils, professionals, deadlines, awkward devices and reality in general.
People
Built by Leonard Bibby and Ethan Good.
First Principles Works is a 50/50 venture founded by two educators with complementary instincts: make the thinking rigorous, then make the thing work.
Both are skilled, qualified teachers, with higher-level qualifications spanning philosophy, teaching and social research.
First Principles Works Limited is registered in England and Wales under company number 17417548.