Sources & Citations
What follows is not a bibliography. The book is argument-first and cites almost nothing. This page documents the claims the book engages, explains how it reads them, and is honest about which figures are the author's working estimates versus external claims the book uses critically.
The Goldman projection is a real headline figure. The consultant savings math is real arithmetic. The half-life estimate is the author's working number from practice, not a peer-reviewed finding. And the book cites almost nothing because the argument is meant to stand on logic you can test against your own business — not on borrowed authority you'd have to take on faith.
The claims the book engages
Four claims worth being precise about — what they actually say, how the book reads them, and where the weight of the argument actually rests.
The Goldman "300 million jobs" number
headline figureThe figure the consultant decks quote. The book reads it as a headline, not a deployment plan — a number designed to produce urgency, not to tell you what to do on Monday.
The consultant savings-line math
the arithmeticHeadcount times average salary equals the savings opportunity. The math is not wrong. The book argues it is dangerously incomplete as the primary case for deployment.
The half-life of institutional knowledge
author's working estimateTwo to three years at the $20–50M scale. Explicitly the author’s estimate from practice, not a peer-reviewed figure. The book cites it as a working number, not a finding.
Why this book cites almost nothing
evidentiary stanceThis is a field manual. The argument is built on logic you can test against your own business, not on borrowed authority from papers you have to take on faith.
From Running at the Speed of Light, Notes on sources · Prometheus Press