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Two APCM and PIN billing rules corrected in the book, and every fact card re-checked
Getting Paid to Do the Right Thing
Two sentences about combining programs were too broad. The rule that keeps Advanced Primary Care Management (APCM) and Transitional Care Management (TCM) from being billed together for the same patient in the same month binds the one...
The fill-in tools can be downloaded as spreadsheets
Medical Device Connectivity
Fourteen of the buyer and builder tools in the online companion at intellectualfrontiers.com now offer a spreadsheet download of their tables, including the Device Classification Worksheet, the Four Truths Data Inventory, the Device...
The PI checklist and the skill catalog are now on the online companion
Surviving Scientific Review
The two reference tools at the back of the book can now be used on a screen at intellectualfrontiers.com.
Blank copies of every field tool and the research kit are in the online companion
The Child Should Never Experience the Organizational Chart
The seven field tools, the Child Experience Fragmentation Diagnostic, and the research kit are now in the online companion at intellectualfrontiers.com as blank forms you can open on a screen, copy into a shared document, and fill in...
The full playbook from every chapter is now in the online companion
The Code Takes Care of Itself
Each of the 23 chapters ends on a playbook, and the complete version of every one is now in the online companion at intellectualfrontiers.com, in chapter order.
The interview work samples can be downloaded as a spreadsheet
The CTO You Actually Need
The work-samples page in the online companion at intellectualfrontiers.com now offers its scoring table as a spreadsheet download, so you can score candidates side by side in the tool you already use.
New book: The Product Manager's New Job Is Acceptance
The Product Manager’s New Job Is Acceptance
A product can pass QA and scripted acceptance testing and still fail the people it was built for.
Twenty field tools can be downloaded as spreadsheets
You Are Not the User
Twenty of the field tools in the online companion at intellectualfrontiers.com now offer their tables as spreadsheet downloads, among them the Who Is the User worksheet, the User Evidence Ladder, the UAT Distance Scale, the...
Twelve field tools can be downloaded as spreadsheets
You Are Not the Warfighter
All twelve field tools in the online companion at intellectualfrontiers.com now offer their tables as spreadsheet downloads, including the Gate Map, the Distance to the Fight record, the Sustainment Tail Test and the Warfighter Evidence...
The prompts and record schemas are now on the online companion
Zero-Bureaucracy Product and Project Management
You can now copy the book’s two working appendices straight from a screen at intellectualfrontiers.com.
Ship one container by default, with Litestream and TLS inside it
Bare Metal Software
If you run your own servers, the book now makes one container the default.
A new ladder shows where your program's state should live
Bare Metal Software
The book now opens every storage decision with one question: what is the simplest reliable way to store this state?
The worksheets, scorecard and program fact cards are now online, with short versions in print
Getting Paid to Do the Right Thing
The working tools that run a between-visit care operation moved from seven printed appendices to the online companion at intellectualfrontiers.com, where you can use them on a screen and where the fact cards can be corrected when Medicare...
All twenty field tools are now in the online companion
Medical Device Connectivity
The two printed appendices of field tools, one for hospital buyers and one for device builders, are now twenty tools in the online companion at intellectualfrontiers.com, with every table and checklist carried over row for row.
Field guides, C-suite coaching guides and a workbook are now in the online companion
The Code Takes Care of Itself
The material a reader fills in, prints or brings to a meeting is now in the online companion at intellectualfrontiers.com, 25 pages in all.
The Companion Workbook is online: a full hiring kit for the CTO role
The CTO You Actually Need
The book's workbook is now a 32-page online companion at intellectualfrontiers.com that takes you from defining the role to evaluating the appointment.
The field tools and AI prompts are now online, twenty-four of them
You Are Not the User
The twenty-one field tools and three AI prompts left the printed book and are now 27 pages in the online companion at intellectualfrontiers.com, where you can use them with your team.
The twelve field tools are now online
You Are Not the Warfighter
Appendix A, the twelve field tools, is now 14 pages in the online companion at intellectualfrontiers.com. Use "Sort Each System by Who Should Integrate It" to decide what a unit builds and what stays with industry.
The book now speaks to every member of the C-suite
Chasing Native Alpha
The book began as a guide for CTOs. It now gives each executive a chapter on how their role finds and protects the advantage only their company owns. The CEO decides where the company concentrates.
New book: Medical Device Connectivity
Medical Device Connectivity
Most hospital devices do real clinical and operational work, and most of them can't report what they did. When a device can't report, staff write it down by hand, rebuild it later, or never learn it at all.
Chapter 10 now starts with the charter, and scaling gets its own chapter
You Are Not the Warfighter
A team charter now comes first. "A Warwright Team Needs Authority, Money, and Time Before It Needs Code" opens with the charter, so a team knows who can say yes before it builds anything.
New book: You Are Not the User
You Are Not the User
Competent, caring people can build the wrong software when the information reaching them has passed through a chain of handoffs.
New book: You Are Not the Warfighter
You Are Not the Warfighter
The people who know the fight have always had to wait for someone else to build what they fight with, and AI now makes integration cheap enough for them to build more of it themselves.
New book: Getting Paid to Do the Right Thing
Getting Paid to Do the Right Thing
Medicare already pays for the between-visit care most practices deliver, and most practices haven't built the operation that earns the payment.
New book: The Child Should Never Experience the Organizational Chart
The Child Should Never Experience the Organizational Chart
Every specialist in a school can be competent and the child can still be let down by the handoffs between them.
New book: Doing the Right Thing Is Not a Business Model
Doing the Right Thing Is Not a Business Model
A product can be clinically effective, FDA cleared, loved by physicians and proven in a pilot, and still have no path to a purchase, because the person who benefits is rarely the person who pays, and there is no single customer inside "the...
New book: FixedOps Performance
FixedOps Performance
Most fixed operations problems do not arrive as large failures.
New book: Surviving Scientific Review
Surviving Scientific Review
NIH received 62,592 Research Project Grant applications in fiscal year 2025 and funded about 13 percent.
New book: Zero-Bureaucracy Product and Project Management
Zero-Bureaucracy Product and Project Management
AI made building cheap, but most project management still assumes it is expensive. A team can now build the wrong feature fast and well, and turn a passing thought from an executive into working software before anyone decides anything.
New book: Bare Metal Software
Bare Metal Software
AI can write more code, and that changes which layers of software you still need. Software stacks grew tall because human developers needed abstractions, frameworks and managed services to make hard work practical.
New book: Chasing Native Alpha
Chasing Native Alpha
AI made building cheap, so what you choose to build now decides your advantage. When every competitor can reach the same models, coding agents and cloud infrastructure, producing more software is no longer a strategy.
New book: The Code Takes Care of Itself
The Code Takes Care of Itself
AI gives every competitor the same tools, and the CTO's job is to build a team that wins with them. AI didn't make the job easier; it moved the bottleneck.
New book: The CTO You Actually Need
The CTO You Actually Need
The CTO title covers very different jobs. A startup builder, an SME technology leader, a business-unit CTO, an enterprise strategist and a fractional adviser can all be excellent, but not for the same company at the same time.