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§01 · Forthcoming

Cover of Rewritten: How AI Is Quietly Redrawing Every Industry

Forthcoming · October 2026

Rewritten.

How AI Is Quietly Redrawing Every Industry

After concluding over 200 deep-dive conversations on the show, one pattern became impossible to ignore: the grid operator, the pathologist, the underwriter and the general were all describing the same experience in different dialects. A system that outperforms them is asking for their trust, and nobody has written the protocol. Rewritten is that pattern, followed through every industry that matters.

This book synthesizes those countless hours of dialogue into a field guide for the decade ahead: the delegation lines no machine should cross, the institutional memory that makes speed survivable, and the uncomfortable arithmetic facing every leader who still believes adoption is optional. It is not a book about technology. It is a book about the handover.

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§02 · Previously Published

Cover of The Conversation Edge: Asking Questions That Move People

Published · 2024

The Conversation Edge

Asking Questions That Move People

A working playbook for leaders who want to ask better questions, in boardrooms, on stages, and in their own teams. Distilled from seven seasons of long-form interviews.

Penguin Random House
Cover of The Scale Paradox: Growth in the Age of Scarcity

Published · 2023

The Scale Paradox

Growth in the Age of Scarcity

An examination of why hyper-growth models built for an era of cheap capital, cheap energy and infinite attention are failing all three tests at once, and what durable scale looks like instead.

Penguin Portfolio

§03 · Praise

The rare business book that is actually about a skill. Bhardwaj has reverse-engineered the interview the way engineers reverse-engineer a machine, and the diagrams work.

Business Standard

Reads like a masterclass conducted by someone still humble enough to publish his own failed questions. Managers will steal from every chapter.

The Mint