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Breaking Silos, the whole book.

The prologue and chapter one are free. The rest opens after a donation of your choice, from €5, and you'll get a personal reading link by mail for every device.

  1. PrologueFour WordsWhose shoulders this book stands on, and the principle that carries everything: wasted resources, useless steps.Free

  2. Part I: The Case

    Chapter 1The GardenTwo children, one box of bricks, and the argument that started this book.Free
  3. Chapter 2From the Baker's Oven to the Broken ChainHow specialisation made us rich and blind: silos, orphaned costs, and innovation left to birthday parties.◦ Donation
  4. Chapter 3The 97% EconomyThe Delft research: almost nothing a sector does is unique to that sector, and the trade routes between all silos already exist.◦ Donation
  5. Chapter 4Breaking Necessity: The True Cost ArrivesTwo of my own 2018 examples repaired in the open, and the wave of law that proved the prediction.◦ Donation

  6. Part II: The Method

    Chapter 5Waste Is an Address, Not a ThingThe two-sided definition, the map, and the five categories: Trash, Energy, Assets, Capabilities, Information.◦ Donation
  7. Chapter 6The Silo-Breaker's MethodTwo breaks, four steps (Scan, Match, Design, Guard), seven conditions, and the wrecks that teach them.◦ Donation
  8. Chapter 7Where to Look FirstInward, nearby, across, and the falling transaction costs that widen the territory every year.◦ Donation

  9. Part III: The Proof

    Chapter 8Trash: The Handshake EconomyKalundborg, Freitag, the timetable boards, slag into cement, and bio-bean, the anatomy of a one-sided exchange.◦ Donation
  10. Chapter 9Energy: The Pipe Between Two WorldsOCAP's CO2 pipeline, Stockholm's heat with a price list, and the quarter-billion-euro lessons of Rotterdam and Agriport.◦ Donation
  11. Chapter 10Assets: The 95% Standing StillParked cars, half-empty offices, Bavarian machine rings, and the power-drill folklore that explains the sharing economy.◦ Donation
  12. Chapter 11Capabilities: The Retired Engineer Who Beat NASAPrizes, protein-folding gamers, crisis staff-sharing, and the wrecks: Quirky and The DAO.◦ Donation
  13. Chapter 12Information: The Silo I Spent a Decade BreakingThe inside story of iSHARE, TfL's £130M ecosystem, a recall narrowed from 1.4 million cars to 14, and why Toronto died.◦ Donation
  14. Chapter 13Chains: Direct from Maker to Buyer11.8 cents of the food dollar, the Dutch short-chain wave, Nike's reversal, Shein's dark mirror, and the inside story of Directify.◦ Donation

  15. Part IV: Breaking Ground

    Chapter 14Your First Broken SiloThe method as a 90-day playbook: scan, match, design one exchange, and guard it.◦ Donation
  16. Chapter 15Teaching the BricksWhy the scan belongs in every business school, where policy leverage really sits, and what comes next.◦ Donation
  17. EpilogueBack to the Garden◦ Donation