The Practicum, chapter by chapter
You arrived here from the book. This page collects, for each chapter, the material that continues it: worksheets, live pages with review dates, and browser tools. Updated: 2026-08-18.
Do not read this index end to end. Find your chapter, take one material, and finish it.
Book 1. The Human
| Chapter | What to open |
|---|---|
| 1. How we got here | Tool map, what to use and what it costs, with a checked date · Simple agents, where to start · both pages explain output and outcome |
| 2. The new price of intelligence | Three value levers filter, what you actually earn on and which part is getting cheaper · Tool map for what model work costs now |
| 3. Professions split into tasks | Chapter page · week inventory · role catalog |
| 4. The ladder is breaking | Chapter page · Ladder Watch, what the data says about entry-level work |
| 5. Five levels of usefulness | Chapter page · Levels Watch · level self-check |
| 6. The human as a system | Chapter page · tool map by layer · autonomous agents |
| 7. Skills that gain value | Chapter page · what the market pays · what to learn now |
| 8. Cognitive debt | Chapter page · practices without cognitive debt · checklist |
| 9. A personal profession audit | Chapter page · integrated audit |
| 10. Who am I when AI does my work | There is deliberately no page for this one: the chapter is about meaning, not tools. The nearest working continuation is career moves by role |
| 11. The first 90 days | Chapter page · personal 90-day plan · Book 1 workbook |
Book 2. Business in the age of AI agents
| Chapter | What to open |
|---|---|
| 1. AI is not a plugin | Chapter page · company model |
| 2. More work done is not more value | Chapter page · the autonomy boundary |
| 3. Teams with agents | Chapter page · agent contract · agent platforms |
| 4. The one-person company | Chapter page · the "zero-human company", trend and honest frame |
| 5. Small business: AI as a cheap back office | Chapter page · small-business staff map |
| 6. When the customer is not human | Chapter page · agent commerce protocols · can an agent find me |
| 7. Children: what to teach | Chapter page · AI skills for children |
| 8. The new economy of work | AI and the labor market · who owns the rails |
| Cases by function | business cases: where agents produce results and where they fail |
Book 3. Trust
Book 3 is organized into three houses rather than one page per chapter. The entry point is the Book 3 workbook; the chapter-by-chapter index is here.
| House | What to open |
|---|---|
| Protection (chapters 1-5) | personal trust perimeter · family trust protocol |
| Verifiability (chapters 6-12) | trust footprint map · trust and law · how many machines are on the web |
| The compass (chapter 13) | trust compass · trust repair protocol |
Cannot find your chapter? Try the method map or the live pages, where everything that dates faster than the book carries its last review date.