Build In Public University
A trophy case, not a highlight reel

Artifacts that survived contact with reality.

This is where work gets displayed after it becomes inspectable. Each artifact carries its receipts: what changed, how it was made, what was verified, and what remains unproven.

First artifact · publication

The Art of Time and War

A Field Manual for Staying Alive While Building the Future — a short field manual for founders and independent builders about strategy, solvency, attention, trust, energy, and building under pressure.

13 + codachapters in the final KDP manuscript
11,433verified manuscript words
3m 15snamed idea to complete first manuscript

The longer receipt matters more than the number: the manuscript assembled quickly because search could retrieve a distributed body of prior work — the concepts, examples, and systems that made the compression possible.

Read the public edition ↗Buy the Kindle edition on Amazon ↗

The Kindle edition is now live on Amazon. Paperback remains deferred until the print interior and cover are proofed.

What belongs in the case?

Shipped work with a readable trail. A page, paper, experiment, course, or system is eligible when someone else can inspect what changed and see the boundary between evidence and aspiration.

More artifacts will appear here when they have earned the space.