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Publications

Books, textbooks, and essays about design, systems, and momentum.

A home for the longer-form work: practical textbooks for designers and operators, systems-thinking books, and selected essays originally published on Medium or partner publications.

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Articles can be mirrored here as curated entries while the originals stay linked from Medium and partner publications.

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Textbooks

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    Unstuck

    Coming soon

    A practical textbook for moving through ambiguous work.

    A field guide for getting teams, products, and careers moving again when the next step is hard to see.

    Audience: Designers, product leaders, founders, and operators

    • Momentum
    • Career systems
    • Decision-making

    Purchase links will be added when Amazon, Stripe, or direct sales pages are ready.

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    The Design MBA

    Coming soon

    Business fluency for designers who want more leverage.

    A commercially oriented design textbook about markets, pricing, strategy, finance, and the operating language behind product decisions.

    Audience: Senior designers, design managers, and independent builders

    • Design leadership
    • Business
    • Strategy

    Purchase links will be added when Amazon, Stripe, or direct sales pages are ready.

Systems thinking

Books

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    Multiplied

    Coming soon

    A systems-thinking book about leverage, compounding effort, and designing conditions where work can travel further than the person doing it.

    Audience: Systems thinkers and builders

    • Systems thinking
    • Leverage
    • Operating models

    Purchase links will be added when Amazon, Stripe, or direct sales pages are ready.

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    Compound

    Coming soon

    A book about the slow, durable mechanics of creative and professional growth.

    Audience: Designers, founders, and long-horizon operators

    • Compounding
    • Practice
    • Long games

    Purchase links will be added when Amazon, Stripe, or direct sales pages are ready.

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    Asphalt

    Coming soon

    A systems-focused work about infrastructure, movement, and the surfaces that quietly shape behavior.

    Audience: Readers interested in systems and built environments

    • Infrastructure
    • Systems
    • Environment

    Purchase links will be added when Amazon, Stripe, or direct sales pages are ready.

Essays and posts

Articles

View all on Medium

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    How product design works when you "think big and release small"

    Available

    An essay on balancing expansive product thinking with releases small enough for teams to learn from.

    Audience: Product designers and product teams

    • Product design
    • Release strategy
    • Team process
    Read on Medium