Intellectual Frontiers

Companion to The Code Takes Care of Itself

The guides, workshops, assessments, and sources the chapters point to

The chapters of The Code Takes Care of Itself make the argument. This companion holds the material a reader fills in, prints, or brings to a meeting: the full playbook from each chapter, two field guides, coaching guides for every seat in the C-suite, a workbook of workshops and assessments, and the notes and sources behind the chapters.

Nothing in the companion replaces the book. Read the chapter a page cites before you use it. The chapters make the case, and this material assumes you’ve bought it. Print what you need, skip the rest.

What the companion holds

  • Playbooks: the full playbook that closes each of the 23 chapters. The book prints a short version of each; every step and example is here.

  • Field guides: the Tradeoff Principles and the CTO’s Operating Principles, each built to scan before a hard meeting.

  • C-suite coaching: the AI Maturity Ladder, a coaching guide for each executive seat, and a ninety-minute board workshop.

  • Workbook: workshops, audits, assessments, a roadmap, and a discussion guide you can run without me in the room.

  • Notes and sources: a link and a note for every study, survey, and case the chapters rely on.

Where to start