Fix the Ladder

How This Was Made

1. What the machine did
2. What it did not do
3. Which is the method, run on itself
4. The evidence
5. C. and P.
6. The standard
7. Part I: The Confidence Gap

The Quiet

1. I wanted to build a spaceship
2. Two problems, not one

Friction Was the Teacher

1. The tuition
2. The loss is measurable, in three professions
3. The science: the struggle is the point
4. The fix is not less AI
5. Part II: Mentoring Differently (the method)

The Loop

1. The loop
2. Make thinking visible
3. Running it

Off the Tools

1. Why you go first
2. Words before the work
3. The design note
4. Give the view a number: the complexity budget
5. Put it on the calendar
6. The habit underneath

Smell Complexity

1. The quiz
2. The vocabulary of boundaries
3. Justified or smell: telling cost from value
4. Six cards
5. What smelling is for

Explain It Back

1. Explain it at three levels
2. Owned versus parroted
3. Make the ownership visible
4. Whose code it is now

Break It

1. The tests that pass are the failures you already imagined
2. A failure mode is specific, or it’s a horoscope
3. Let the AI break it, then break the AI
4. The cheapest thing that catches it
5. The Friday Afternoon Test

Own the Output

1. The ten-second call
2. The capstone
3. When the hour ran out
4. Whose feature it is now

Six Weeks with C. and P.

1. Catching a tell isn’t judgement
2. Producing stalled; reacting worked
3. What gave the tools teeth
4. A shared word for complexity
5. Own it, or it isn’t yours
6. Breaking it is a different muscle
7. The machine usually won
8. They were never juniors

A Catalog of Exercises

1. The core five
2. The rest of the menu
3. Picking one

More Than the Code

1. The second rung
2. Invisible is expensive
3. Stop letting them attend
4. When there’s no room to be in
5. The part that was never the code
6. The leader’s ten minutes
7. Owning more than the output
8. Part III: The Closed Door

The Door Is Closed

1. The argument everyone made without saying it out loud
2. The mirror
3. Four datasets, four methods, one direction
4. How a door closes with nobody pushing it
5. The prior question

We Never Hired Them for the Tickets

1. What we were actually buying
2. The dividend already has a destination
3. Spending a slice on purpose
4. The problem with 2035

Juniors Are the Asset

1. The equaliser
2. Nothing to mourn
3. We are all juniors again
4. The team that wins

The Ten-Year Team

1. Five lines

A Letter to Your Juniors

The Evidence

1. The ladder is broken: skill erosion
2. The craft and the learning science
3. The door is closed: the hiring collapse
4. Juniors are the asset
5. Handle with care

The Facilitator’s Pack

1. The shape of an hour
2. Before you run session one
3. The six sessions at a glance
4. Session one, minute by minute
5. Sessions two to six
6. The prompt pack
7. The templates
8. On the wall
9. The recurring questions
10. The rules I learned the hard way
11. What to collect