Digital Insurgency
Build with AI instead of being replaced by it.
A field course for building with AI instead of being replaced by it. Read aloud, with the calculator and the lab that go with it.
Every one of them
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Digital Insurgency — trailer
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Orientation: The Mirror Test
Whatever you shipped this week — open it up and look at the engine, not the gradient. Almost nobody looks. That's why almost nobody wins. Every company you'll try to change has an immune system: forms, committees, sunk cost, and a fear reflex older than the org chart. This is the
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The Rewrite
Every line of code on earth has an expiration date. You just can't read yours yet. The rewrite is coming whether you're ready or not — and when anyone can generate competent, the only currency left is the human fingerprint. This episode gives you two ways to measure that: the Ext
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The Physics of Stagnation
The enterprise isn't a sales problem. It's a physics problem. Inertia has an equation, and so does fear. Stuck initiatives aren't a mood — they're forces you can measure. This episode hands you five of them: Vendor Gravity (F_g), the Entropy Tax (E_tax), Legacy Friction (μ_leg),
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The Curator's Edge & the Psychology of the Blockade
Say "transform" and watch the amygdala fire. Say "refinance" and watch the shoulders drop. Same idea. Different survival. When the feed fills with infinite soulless AI content, the 0.01% with a human fingerprint is the whole game — that's Curator Value (V_curator) and the Authent
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The Portrait of Dorian App
The product stays beautiful. The portrait in the server room rots. And the beauty is a prerequisite for the ugliness. This is the moral core of the course — the Dorian Gray metaphor made literal. Two numbers carry it: the Dorian Gray Index (D_gray), how far your product's face ha
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Architecture as Camouflage
You don't beat the immune system. You make it think it designed you. Module II opens the protocol. The lesson is camouflage, not combat: the Reversibility Ratio (R_r) — your kill switch, the thing that makes a scared architect say yes — and the Strangler Fig pattern that grows yo
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The Art of the Wedge
Don't storm the fortress. Find the one wall that's already bleeding, and ship an ugly plugin into the crack. The wedge is how you get in before anyone can stop you — measured as Wedge Velocity (V_w): how fast a small, ugly tool proves value where the pain is loudest. Start where
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Good Trouble
Read the 247 pages nobody reads. The rules that trap you are also 23 loopholes wide. Good trouble is the only kind worth making — quietly, on purpose, inside the rules. This episode gives you two gauges: the Good-Trouble quotient (GT) and the Insurgent Index (I_insurgent), the di
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Calculus for Cowards & The Qualification Protocol
Kill the 22-slide deck at slide 3. Hand them one sheet: the status quo is costing $12,290 a day. Two disciplines here. First, Calculus for Cowards — put a daily dollar figure on doing nothing, using Legacy Cost (L_legacy) and a Safety Factor (S_fc) so the CFO reframes your vision
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Weaponizing Bureaucracy
They opened an audit to kill you. Walk in with a 3-inch binder and turn their weapon into your armor. The immune system's best weapon — compliance — becomes yours. The measure is Audit Defensibility (D_audit), built from Compliance Inheritance (inherit a control instead of re-ear
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The Invasion Plan
Friday, 5:07 PM, holiday weekend, skeleton crew. Fifteen seconds to decide: stay safe in the shadows, or reveal and save them. The climax — the whole protocol paying off at once. The physics is Trust/Risk (T_r) and the 4-Phase Protocol that walks a shadow system to System of Reco
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Field Dispatches: Three Runs in the Wild
Three industries, three immune systems, one toolkit. It works in the wild — here's the proof. The applied review: the whole course run across three verticals. Fortress Run takes NeoFraud into a bank through one analyst's bleeding neck — 19 months from first contact to System of R
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Victory Without Fire & The Insurgent's Oath
You don't win by burning it down. Four percent is 1.88 million people seeing one less piece of garbage a day. Four percent is good trouble. The morning after. No boss left to fight — just the math. This episode closes the arc on the four-percent principle: you didn't torch the ma
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The Field Kit
No scene this time. Just the gear. Load out, and go run your own insurgency. The reference episode — the whole arsenal in one briefing. All 24 equations spoken with their benchmarks, from the Extinction Rate and Vendor Gravity to the Dorian Gray Index and Trust/Risk, so you know
