A Progressive Engineer's Guide to Corporate Survival
Book 1 in the Anti-Airport Business Book series. The flagship Grand Game thesis — exposing managerial dysfunction, organisational incompetence, and the forces arrayed against anyone who actually wants to build things properly. The antidote to every vacuous leadership book you've ever been gifted by HR.
Why the Office Is Dead and Management Killed It
Book 2 in the Anti-Airport Business Book series. A tactical field guide to the greatest workplace conflict of our generation — the grinding, passive-aggressive campaign to drag engineers back into the empty offices the pandemic so mercifully emptied. The open-plan office as Bentham's Panopticon, lightly refurbished, with a Nespresso machine.
The Software Engineering Hiring Catastrophe
Book 3 in the Anti-Airport Business Book series. A survival manual for the progressive engineer caught up in the modern hiring catastrophe — whether on the seeking-employment side of the desk, the hiring side, or, by sheer attritional accident, both. Recruiters as Emergency Holographic projections, HR as Stasi-Lite, the eight-round beauty pageant dismantled, and the coding test put out of its misery.
Essays from the trenches of the software industry. Corporate absurdity, managerial incompetence, and the quiet dignity of writing good code in hostile conditions.
A systematic dismantling of performance review theatre — 360 reviews, SMART goals, annual cycles, and every other instrument of corporate self-delusion.
Are we living in a simulation? Does it matter? What would Nietzsche say? Existential speculation grounded in physics, computation, and a healthy dose of cosmic indifference.
