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Everything that changed here, newest first: research, patents, portfolio works, books, and the site itself.
September 2026
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.