Ibrahim Anwar writing

I write the way I work, from direct experience, not from research alone. Every piece starts with something I built, observed, or argued with. The writing is the processing.

Some essays are in English, some in Bahasa Indonesia. I write in whichever language fits the thinking. Indonesian for things that feel local, English for things that need to travel.

Short-form observations. 4-10 lines. The raw thinking.

2026-03-28

The companies that show up in ChatGPT are the ones that bothered to be verifiable.

2026-03-25

A site survey teaches you more than a spec sheet.

2026-03-20


Long-form pieces that take a position. 1,500-3,000 words. Each essay gets Article schema and a Zenodo DOI after publishing.


Operator's Handbook

All 20 books →

A 50-book series of plain-language operations playbooks for SME owners. 20 shipped, 30 in production through 2027. Each book ships with a free 9-minibook worksheet pack. Topics span cost, cash, inventory, vendor, pricing, procurement, supply chain, budget, break-even, lean, contracts, AR, tax, process, quality, project cost, financial ratios, warehouse.

Other titles

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Standalone titles and Indonesian-language consumer-finance series.