This is a field note from the book being written. The Specification Economy argues that production has become cheap and specification has become the bottleneck, and one idea from the manuscript-in-progress lands here first every week, before the book exists.
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The brief has no hype, no jargon, no tool reviews: only what actually happened last month and what it means for a company that has to decide something. The first issue arrives October 1. It is written natively in English and in French: pick the one you read in, not a translation.
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One or two plain sentences at the top. If you read nothing else, you can still use this one in your next meeting.
One idea from the chapter currently being written, told as a story, tested on you before it goes into the manuscript. Reply and argue with it; replies shape the book.
One small exercise you can run on your own team in under an hour.
One real incident from the week: a capable system doing exactly what it was told, and what it was told was wrong. The primary source is linked.
One quote worth keeping: verbatim, attributed, timestamped, never paraphrased, never generated.
A single figure with its source, or no figure at all. A number that can't be verified doesn't run.
A single next step, explained in one sentence: an article, the diagnostic, a waitlist. It is never a catalog.
Field notes on stalled AI transformation, executive judgment, and the specification economy — the weekly letter behind Book 2. About once a week. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.