AI has taken over the technical half of a lot of expert jobs. What's left is the half nobody can hand over — deciding what's worth doing, reading the room, answering for the call. One book follows that into design. The other into engineering.
Half of a designer's job just got cheap. This book is about the other half.
Every design job was always two jobs: the made thing, and the call. AI took the first one almost overnight. The second was never where designers were taught to keep their worth, and that's the gap the book closes.
AI didn't erase a designer's value. It exposed how much of that value was attached to the artifact.
From the manuscript
You can trace a fault through a system you've never seen. Then the meeting starts.
Reading people is not a personality you were born with or without — it's a skill with observable inputs and a method. The mind that finds structure under an unfamiliar system can read a room the same way. No scripts, no personality types: one instrument, and one real scene traced end to end in every chapter.
The part of the job they said couldn't be taught is the part this book teaches.
From the manuscript
Both manuscripts are finished. Each book has its own page with the positioning, structure, audience, comps, and a sample you can read right now, plus a direct way to reach me. Full proposals and further chapters on request.
Occasional updates on new essays and where the books land. Nothing else.