02 · What's inside
Your first email
Two books, four opening chapters, one email. This is what lands in your inbox the moment you subscribe:
Chapters 1 and 2
Forward Deployed AI Engineering
The first two chapters of the 304-page working guide to the role OpenAI and Anthropic put on the map.
Chapters 1 and 2
Founder Mode
The first two chapters on how the great companies are actually built.
There's no checkout and no download page to dig through. The chapters are just there, in the first email.
03 · Then, every week
One decision, one mental model
The letter is written for founders who invest and investors who build, and it has one job: better judgment. Each week takes one real decision and runs it through one mental model, the same tools Daily Wisdom works through a page at a time. No frameworks borrowed from Twitter threads. No promises of overnight scale. Just the decision, the model, and what the model says to do.
One real decision. A hire, a raise, a price, a term sheet, a pivot. Something with money or trust on the line, not a hypothetical.
One mental model. Base rates, incentives, inversion, margin of safety. One per letter, in plain words, from the latticework Daily Wisdom builds over a year.
Where the judgment slips. The misjudgment the model catches, and why it is so easy to miss in the moment.
What to do on Monday. The same decision, re-run with the model in hand. Short enough to read in one sitting.
04 · The receipts
I publish every week
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Consistently not stupid
Consistently not stupid Preview text: Where Berkshire's returns actually came from, and the $3.5 billion mistake Buffett keeps confessing.
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Built to last or to sell
The events that end a company, the founder's own place on the list, and a risk factor that came true.
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Kill criteria
The rules you write while sane, and a co-founder dispute that cost $157.5 million because nobody wrote them.
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The book is out today
The book is out today Preview text: Today's page, reproduced in full, and how to read the other 365.
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What a round costs
The bill for a financing round arrives on delay. WeWork's S-1 itemized it
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First, don't die
What $1.75 billion could not buy, and six questions to ask before you wire money
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The book I wished someone else had written
Three books in last several years, and why the first one I started is the last one out.
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Cargo Cults: How to Spot a Fake FDE Motion Before You Join It (or Buy It)
Anyone can adopt the title and redraw the org chart. The substance is harder to fake, and one test separates the two.
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Breaking Into the Hottest Job in Software
Four paths in, a three-project portfolio, and the interview stage everyone underestimates.
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Ship the First Slice
The smallest end-to-end system, on real data, with the customer holding the keyboard. And why your first version should be three Python files, not an agent framework.
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Evals Are the New Spec
In AI engineering, the evaluation set is the specification, and building the right one is the highest-leverage activity in any engagement.
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Validation Is Not Optional: The Three-Phase Engagement
Scope, validate, deliver. The middle phase is the one everyone wants to skip, and the one that decides whether the engagement is worth attempting at all.
05 · Who's writing this
About
I'm Nasser Ghanemzadeh. 17+ years building products and companies across AI, SaaS, and fintech. As CEO and CPO of Nivo, I shipped AI-powered applications that grew to 200K+ users and 450% revenue growth before the company was acquired.
These days I build Vectig solo with Claude Code and run a 10-business-day FDE Sprint for B2B SaaS teams. If you have an AI feature in mind, the Workflow Scorecard tells you in two minutes whether it can ship in ten days. The books came out of that work. More on the home page.
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06 · Get the chapters
Your first email has the chapters in it.
Then one letter a week: one real decision through one mental model, for founders who invest and investors who build.