№ 004 · The book
In progress, MMXXVI
¶ A working title

Still Useful.

On staying relevant in a profession whose surface area keeps changing — written by someone who has done it for thirty years.

Not a book about AI. A book about how to keep your judgement sharp when the tools keep getting replaced. For the operators, owners, and middle-managers AI is supposed to be coming for.

"The rare technology book that respects the reader's time and their intelligence in equal measure."

— Early reader

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¶ Table of contents (working)

What's in the book.

  1. The technology will replace itself. You don't have to.Part I
  2. How to read a market without believing the marketPart I
  3. The translator problemPart II
  4. Pilots that ship vs. pilots that don'tPart II
  5. Boring infrastructure, expensive lessonsPart II
  6. Calm decisions under fast changePart III
  7. What outlasts the cyclePart III
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