Books
Different topics, same operating lens. Daily Wisdom is a year of one-page meditations on judgment, misjudgment, and money. Founder Mode is about how great companies are actually built. Forward Deployed AI Engineering is about the job that has become the default way to ship AI into the real world.
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366 Meditations on Mental Models, Misjudgment, and Money
One bad hire costs a year. One bad acquisition costs a decade. One bad partner can cost you the company. A year-long course in not fooling yourself, for founders, investors, and managers: a verified quotation, a short essay, and one question for every day of the year.
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2026
A Working Guide to the Hottest Job in Software
On May 4, 2026, OpenAI and Anthropic each launched deployment subsidiaries on the same day, both built around the title Forward Deployed Engineer. This book is for the person who wants to do that work. Five parts: the landscape, the mindset and the method, the craft, becoming an FDE, and the economy and future.
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2026
How the Great Companies Are Actually Built
In 2024, Paul Graham named "Founder Mode" after Brian Chesky's talk at a YC alumni dinner. The practice is older than the name. HP, Disney, Apple, Pixar, Amazon, NVIDIA, and Costco built their best work this way. This book traces how, and is honest about the costs.
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02 · Why three books
The three books are about the same thing seen from different angles. Daily Wisdom is about judgment: the models, the misjudgments, and the money, one page a day. Founder Mode is about the people who choose to stay close to the work that matters as their companies scale. Forward Deployed AI Engineering is about the work itself, in a specific form, in a specific moment. Start with whichever is closer to the problem on your desk.
03 · About the author
