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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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New book: FixedOps Performance
FixedOps Performance: Most fixed operations problems do not arrive as large failures.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.