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COMING · 2026

F*$? THE
resume.

A book for everyone who was told to "build a career" but always suspected the rules were rigged. The resume is a 20th-century document. We're not living in the 20th century.

This is the book I wish someone had shoved into my hands when I dropped out of playing the corporate game and decided to just start building instead. It's not a career guide. It's a jailbreak.

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§ 01 — Why this book

THE RESUME
is the problem.

The resume was invented in 1482 by a Renaissance painter trying to sell himself to a duke. It has not meaningfully evolved since. We are still, in 2026, asking young people to reduce themselves to a single page of past employers and hope that someone with a worse job than theirs picks up the phone.

Meanwhile, the people actually winning right now — the ones building audiences, agencies, products, culture — don't have resumes. They have receipts. They have bodies of work. They have craft, and they have proof.

This book is about the switch. How to stop selling yourself and start shipping work that sells itself. How to build a portfolio, a personal brand, a reputation — instead of a CV. How to be unignorable.

TABLE OF
contents.

  1. I

    WHY THE RESUME IS DEAD

  2. II

    SHIP, DON'T SELL

  3. III

    BUILD IN PUBLIC

  4. IV

    THE RECEIPT PORTFOLIO

  5. V

    BRAND IS NOT A LOGO

  6. VI

    ASKING VS. BEING ASKED

  7. VII

    THE 10% FINISH

  8. VIII

    A FIELD MANUAL FOR THE NEXT YEAR

"Stop sending your resume.
Start sending your work."
— From the book
§ 02 — Editions

HOW YOU'LL
be able to read it.

EDITION 01

HARDCOVER

Premium hardcover print. Matte laminate, orange foil title, 280 pages. Designed the way I'd want it on my own shelf.

COMING · Q2 2026
EDITION 02

AUDIOBOOK

Narrated by me. Direct, unfiltered, the way I actually talk — not the corporate audiobook voice. With bonus chapters not in the print.

COMING · Q2 2026
EDITION 03

DIGITAL + PDF

Kindle, Apple Books, and a DRM-free PDF that you can mark up. Includes the workbook templates referenced in the field manual.

COMING · Q2 2026
§ 03 — Next on the shelf

MORE BOOKS
in the works.

UPCOMING · 2027

THE culture AGENCY

How we built Trifid from a three-person studio into the biggest youngest agency in the region. Case studies. Campaigns. The operational chapters most founders never write down.

  • Real Trifid campaigns, told in detail
  • The hiring & culture systems
  • Margin math + service pricing
● MANUSCRIPT IN PROGRESS Notify me →
UPCOMING · 2027

THE green CURRENCY

A companion book to my second platform. Stories of wealth, status, and what the region's most interesting operators actually do with their money — and what most of us get wrong about both.

  • Interviews with GCC operators
  • Case studies on brand-as-capital
  • Not a "finance book" — a culture book
● OUTLINE STAGE Notify me →
First drop, first access

BE THE FIRST
to get it.

The first 500 people on this list get a signed pre-order, early chapter previews, and a private launch event invite. No exceptions after the cap.

SIGNED COPIES · LIMITED TO FIRST 500