Field Fiction
Short stories from the world of the novel
Free short fiction set in the same world as We Don't Need Experts — the meetings, the vanity deadlines, the decisions nobody wants to sign their name to. Each one reads like flipping through a short ebook, right here.
The Phantom Prototype
A working prototype built in one night out of infrastructure the company already owned, and the two words that killed it without ever explaining why.
The Shortcut That Wasn't
A missing API, a two-week promise nobody could keep, and the process that was never written down because someone always just happened to know it.
The Date That Didn't Matter
A vanity deadline, a manager who wants a headline, and the engineer who has to decide whether hitting the date is worth breaking the thing it was supposed to prove.